![]() If your accounts have different names on different wikis, then you need to ask bureaucrats to rename your accounts such that they all have the same name before you try to create a single user login account.However, there are several possible complicating factors: Go to Special:MergeAccount on the wiki on which you are most active, and retype your password.(Either of these can be changed via Special:Preferences.) Make sure that either your email address or your password is the same across all accounts you currently own on public Wikimedia wikis.The simplest and most common case is where all your accounts have the same username, and nobody else has the same username as you. ![]() In order to opt-in to single user login, you need to create a global account. Note that administrators were able to opt-in to single user login in March, and many have already done so there is nothing special about single user login accounts created during the pilot, and administrators who already have such an account need not take any special action. It also means that the accounts are identified within the software as belonging to the same user, and synchronises their email address and passwords also, logging onto one wiki logs a user onto all other wikis within the same domain (for instance, logging onto the English Wikipedia logs a user with a global account onto other language Wikipedias too, and logging onto Meta also logs a user onto Commons, because they are both at this feature was only enabled recently, so you may need to log out and back in again to benefit from this). This software feature (known as the CentralAuth extension to the software) will initially allow a user to reserve an account on all public Wikimedia wikis simultaneously that is, nobody can create an account with the same username as you, and you can log onto any wiki without having to explicitly create an account there. ![]() On Tuesday, Single User Login became available for all users in an opt-in basis. Single User Login opt-in for all users By ais523 and Ral315, 26 May, 2008 ![]()
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