On 5/20/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
OK, I understand. I was not clear that this was
how SUL is going to
work. I thought that SUL meant that I would not have an account on all
wikis, but that when I created one on a new wiki, it would automatically
give me the single user name and passwd. It does seem rather excessive
for every user on the en wikipedia to have an account on every small
wiki. Is is not a burden on the small wiki's servers?
I think the idea is that all the wikis share a user database, so it
should actually reduce the server load. At least, that's how I
understand it.
But will our user names then pop up as new user accounts on various
non-English language wikipedias and we'll be blocked for having names that
mean something forbidden in the other language? Well, if we never use it,
we'll never know if we're blocked, so it won't matter if PutridNonBlonde
means something nasty in Polish or not, I guess.
It seems rather excessive, though, indeed.
KP