Help with Login IDs?

[briar_pipe]

Ok, I've spent ~2 hours looking through Help and FAQ pages for this info, and no one's in the chatroom right now, so I guess this is my last stop. Help me, Fanlore geniuses - you're my only hope!

I originally started editing Fanlore using an OpenID account based on my LJ. But since I don't log into my LJ very often anymore, I went ahead and created a regular account. I assumed that after I did so, there would be a way to merge the two.

Silly me.

So now I have a user page and one set of watchlist/contribs under OpenID, and a second set under my new login. Does anyone have any idea how I get myself out of this mess? I would really rather keep the new login, if possible, especially since I've already contributed under it.

Thank you to anyone who has ideas!

Comments

[sophinisba]

I don't have anything helpful to say, but I'm excited to see that you're working on the wiki. It makes me want to get back to it. :)

[briar_pipe]

Oh, yay! I confess, having an editing buddy or five would help me get off my butt and do more. ^_~

[sophinisba]

Having an editing buddy makes a world of difference! Sometimes I think it would be awesome if we could have a Merlin editing swarm some weekend. They've talked about things along those lines here but I don't think there have been fandom specific ones yet.

[briar_pipe]

Hey, I sense a theme for a PARTY, hm? I was going to do a newbie party this weekend, but have just realized we should wait until the second Skiffy run finishes. So, alternate theme = fandom geekery and volunteer work? Thoughts?

[sophinisba]

I do not understand Skiffy? What, do you mean the evil channel? Are they showing the second season now?

I was actually very dorkily excited about the Welcome the Newbies party! I was going to do a Follow Friday post and pimp it at dw_community_promo and just before I got your comment I was contemplating starting a "Welcome to Dreamwidth" thread where we'd answer people's questions about how to work OpenID and how to link to LJ usernames and all. I do think it's a good time to have a newbie party because a lot of people are looking for new things to do on Dreamwidth these days.

However, fandom geekery and volunteer work would be a lot of fun too! In addition to a Multishipper Swarm on Fanlore I would love to have discussions of how people are archiving on AO3 (I NEVER GET TIRED OF TALKING ABOUT TAGS) and what they think makes for a healthy LJ/DW comm, like in terms of modding or encouraging participation. What else did you have in mind?

[briar_pipe]

Yes, and no - first season still, I think?

Ok, ok, we'll do the newbies this time! (Must. Go. Pimp.) But next weekend after that I have no party planned, so we can try to get everyone together for a "How to Use the Fanlore Wiki" and "How to Use AO3" shindig and then descend on the place to spruce up the Merlin pages. We have enough people from enough different backgrounds to do a half-decent job, I think. And I very much like your thread ideas, will steal w/ credit if that's ok. ^_^

Carry on with what you're doing, don't let me interrupt! (By which I mean, you're brilliant and I don't know what I'd do without you.)