{"id":83,"date":"2009-04-23T17:57:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demeringo.ovh.org\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-04-23T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T15:57:55","slug":"dealing-with-duplicate-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with duplicate accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than often, we have to deal with users who create multiple accounts on the same service.<\/p>\n<p>The following article provide an nice way to regroup similar accounts using the &#8220;Levenshtein Distance&#8221; to catch typo in user name fields.<\/p>\n<p>The implementation relies on Perl but the principle is easily adaptable to other languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/proudtouseperl.com\/2009\/04\/dealing-with-duplicate-person-data.html\">http:\/\/proudtouseperl.com\/2009\/04\/dealing-with-duplicate-person-data.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than often, we have to deal with users who create multiple accounts on the same service. The following article provide an nice way to regroup similar accounts using the &#8220;Levenshtein Distance&#8221; to catch typo in user name fields. The implementation relies on Perl but the principle is easily adaptable to other languages. http:\/\/proudtouseperl.com\/2009\/04\/dealing-with-duplicate-person-data.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WcEf-1l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/le-moulin-de-verre.com\/fieldnotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}