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Special:Renameuser special page allow bureaucrats to rename the Username of users. Prior to MediaWiki 1.40 , this was part of Extension:Renameuser .
Usage
- Only bureaucrats (unless some other permission configuration is specified) can access the Special:Renameuser page.
- You need to fill three things હાલનું સભ્યનામ:, નવું સભ્યનામ: and કારણ:.
- Two extra things:
- સભ્ય અને ગપ્પાં પાનાંઓ (અને તેમનાં ઉપપાનાંઓ) નવાં નામ પર ખસેડો, this instructs the system to move all user and talk pages to the new username.
- નવા નામ પર દિશા નિર્દેશનો ન રચશો, this instructs the system not to create redirects from the old username to the new username.
- Then Submit.
Step-by-step
Usurping an account
This is a process where the username of an account is taken over by another user.
Visit User talk:Dmitriy (usurped)~mediawikiwiki to see usurpation in action. To achieve this, the administrator can rename the existing username by adding (usurped) as a qualifer. Then they can successfully take over the existing username.