question about Open ID accounts on the wiki

[ratcreature]

Back in October I chose to sign up to Fanlore with Open ID to avoid dealing with yet another password, and picked my LJ address to authenticate me. However with the Fanlore discussion community being now here on DW it would make more sense to authenticate with my DW URL. Admittedly my username is the same across services so it doesn't matter that much for easy identification and transparency in discussions, but it seems neater somehow. Is there a way to change the URL, while making it clear to the wiki that this is the same person, and retaining the editing history and such?

Comments

[franzeska]

I poked around a little, but I couldn't figure this out either. I could have sworn someone told me the answer at some point, but... :(

Random passerby comment

[foxfirefey]

You may have solved this already, but there is an OpenID converter here:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Special:OpenIDConvert

Re: Random passerby comment

[ratcreature]

So this lets me change the URL of an existing Open ID account? It says "This form lets you change your user account to use an OpenID URL", but I don't have a user fanlore account. I had seen this but I thought it was just to convert a regular account into an OpenID one.

Re: Random passerby comment

[foxfirefey]

It should--I just tested it on the Dreamwidth wiki to do the same thing as you, change my LJ OpenID to a DW one, and it did that.