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Please help me with... I am puzzled and concerned aboout my Wikipedia account, User:CuriousMarkE

I appreciate that Wikipedia is a largely volunteer led organisation and this may be a complex matter. I hope you can help me.

Using my Windows PC and Firefox browser, I see webpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CuriousMarkE This isn't the same webpage as I get on my iPhone using Safari. This links to: https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:CuriousMarkE&action=edit&redlink=1

Now, I thought I was using the same ID and account on the two devices. I now see that isn't true. In particular, I created a watchlist on my PC and I was surprised that this wasn't available to me on my iPhone. I've ended up creating a second watchlist on my iPhone account.

I can understand that there are security issues involved in co-ordinating a user id across different devices and interface technologies. However, It seems I now have two ids that look like the same person to the casual user. In particular, that could create real problems if someone impersonates another person. It also creates problems for me, since I would like to share information between my wikipedia account on my PC and that on my iPhone, for example, my watchlists. I would also like my profile information and similar things to be the same. Of course, some settings need to be different to reflect the different contexts.

What is the situation regarding these two issues and what workarounds are available? Also, where should I report this? I only do a little Wikipedia editing and don't know much about the ins and outs of getting help.

I found out about this way of asking questions from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questions

Regards

   Mark Dunn CuriousMarkE (talk) 11:20, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

For some reason on your iPhone you're using the Simple English version of Wikipedia. You can tell from the "simple" at the beginning of the url. If you replace "simple" with "en" you get the regular English Wikipedia. Your user and talk pages and all subpages are different on each version of Wikipedia. -- Random person no 362478479 (talk) 12:51, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I would find it helpful if the user page showed that this user has user pages in different wikis, or at least made it obvious which wiki the user page is part of. This isn’t obvious for the simple wikipedia pages, say.

A simple way to switch to other wikis from the user page could help. CuriousMarkE (talk) 15:54, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

You can find all your local accounts using this:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=CuriousMarkE

Every time you go to a version you have not used before it gets added. The easiest way to check which version you're currently accessing is to look at the language code in the url. -- Random person no 362478479 (talk) 16:42, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks. That link is helpful. It's helping me make sense of the overall structure. CuriousMarkE (talk) 20:09, 22 April 2023 (UTC)