[Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts

Casey Brown cbrown1023 at comcast.net
Sun May 13 19:32:47 UTC 2007


Yes, we do... but that may not come up any time soon.  Brion is working on
it, but he also has many other important things to do.

Casey Brown

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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of GerardM
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts

Hoi,
This is such a waste of time.

We need single user login.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 5/13/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to stop
> impersonation.  If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project,
> make
> sure it is linked from your main account.  Otherwise, it may get blocked.
> An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your accounts at
> Meta and link that page to all your other sites.  This will, hopefully,
> make
> it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for your accounts to be
> identified.
>
> A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be
> found
> at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
>
> Thanks,
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
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