Help talk:Unified login
Add topic | This page is to discuss the creation of Wikimedia Unified Login, introduced in the early 2010s to replace the previous configuration of separate accounts on separate wikis. Please report current problems with login on Wikimedia wikis to Phabricator instead. |
Related talk pages:
- Talk:Single sign-on transition (2004)
- Talk:Single login (2004-2011)
- Talk:Single login poll (2004)
- Talk:Single login specifications (2005-2008)
Wikitech-l threads:
- Single user login status (2006)
- Primary account for single user login (2007)
- continued 1 (2008)
- continued 2 (2008).
- CentralAuth shared session updates (2008)
Wikitech migration to SUL can cause error
[edit]A user at en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Auto-creation of a local account failed was unable to log in to new wikis because they had an unattached Wikitech account but the error message was unhelpful. It appears from wikitech:Wikitech/SUL-migration#How? that it's a general issue from 1 October 2024 to 30 January 2025, unless something is improved before then. wikitech:Special:Statistics says 37,605 registered users but I don't know how many are affected. I suggest adding this to Help:Unified login#Conflict resolution, and maybe remove it after 30 January 2025 if the issue appears gone then:
Wikitech is migrating to SUL in 2024–25. If Special:CentralAuth shows an unattached Wikitech account then you may get this error message when you try to log in to a wiki where your account does not already exist:
Auto-creation of a local account failed: Cannot create account: The username is already in use. Please pick another name.
The message is made by MediaWiki:Authmanager-authn-autocreate-failed and MediaWiki:Centralauth-account-unattached-exists. You may see it in the language of the wiki. Try merging the Wikitech account at wikitech:Special:MergeAccount to fix the problem.
The suggested fix worked for the user. I quoted the full English error message to help users who search for it. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:17, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Attempt for local creation, while having any unattached account, will always fail. I have added the suggestion with minor modification. – Ammarpad (talk) 19:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC)