Help talk:Logging in: Difference between revisions

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• 17:33, 26 September 2006 contribs)| (→Creating an account - Note: As of September 26, 2006, the symbol "@" is no longer allowed in usernames; see bugzilla:6849.)

• 18:54, 12 September 2006 User:68.75.19.206

The Wikipedia user interface makes provision for lost passwords, but not for lost user IDs. Because it ties the user ID to the email address, this can result in permanently locked-out email addresses.

It appears I created a Wikipedia user ID, with email address, probably over a year ago. I didn't record it. Now I cannot retrieve it, because although I can have a fresh password sent to me via the email address, that required me to already know the user ID. And I cannot create a new user ID with my email address, because my address is already tied to my old user ID, and I get an error message when I try.

If there is, in fact, a way to retrieve lost user IDs, or to delete user IDs based on email addresses, it does not appear to be documented on the Help section.

This would seem to be a fairly significant deficiency in the login functionality, and one most other on-line login interfaces handle much better.

/kenw kenw@kmsi.net 68.147.128.184 15:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems accounts are not universal across different language versions of Wikipedia. Why is this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vtolfreak (talk • contribs) 20:41, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Still not the case... and this question is still interesting. I guess that there are too many overlap between usernames of various countries but it would still be good to have the ability to officially link users as the same person. It is always possible to change the users page but once one has 3 or 4 accounts (two languages both on wikipedia and wiktionary makes 4 accounts) it becomes quickly unmanageable. --Iv (talk) 09:52, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would be great to be able to use openID to log in on the wikipedia. It would solve some issues of multiple accounts across different language versions of the wikipedia and would allow to log once and for all in all the versions.--Iv (talk) 09:52, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good day,

Im 35yrs and have breast cancer, had an operation to remve left breast, hve been told it has spread to my right breast. How did you survive the chemo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.167.240.8 (talk) 13:09, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've allowed cookies (I'm using Firefox), but for some reason I still can't stay logged in to Wikipedia for more than half an hour or so. I don't have this problem with Gmail or Facebook.

What could be the reason for this?

Palefire (talk) 13:01, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you ticked the 'remember me' box? Tra (Talk) 15:10, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I'm sure I tried that in the past, and it didn't work, but I did that today and it kept me logged in. So thanks. Palefire (talk) 15:22, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]