On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Charlotte Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Angela <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Sorry, are you saying it's not possible to desysop User:@p...@enwiki >>> using the stewards' tool? >> >> That's not the case. User rights can changed by user ID as well as by >> user name. So, you'd just enter #3685...@enwiki instead. You can find >> a user ID by exporting a page they've written - >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/User:@pple > > Gee, is that the only work-around? I'm not sure many stewards would > remember how to do that in an emergency. Is this written in the > interface of the stewards' tool as something to try if they get an > error?
The only one I know of. Using the ID instead of the name is explained at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook#Encoding_problems but emergency desysopping of admins with @ in their name is sufficiently rare that I don't think there's reason to be concerned about it. Angela _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
