[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single userlogin

[Chad]

Not to mention, there's quite a few other feature requests
(new messages indication across projects, mutli-project
watchlists, etc) that can't be done without SUL.

-Chad

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Henning Schlottmann wrote:
>  > Has there ever been a discussion if SUL really is the answer to any real
>  > problem
>
>  To summarize:
>
>  * We run hundreds of wiki sites
>
>  * Many people are active on multiple sites, and we encourage this with
>  eg Commons media and Meta discussion
>
>  * It's continually inconvenient to have to create accounts and log in
>  separately on such tightly integrated sites
>
>  * The separate registration can result in name conflicts, which are
>  confusing at best and abusive at worst
>
>
>  Creating a global space for usernames resolves these continual
>  inconveniences and confusions of separate accounts, in exchange for a
>  one-time migration process which will be minimally inconvenient for
>  most, slightly inconvenient for a few, and rather annoying for a handful.
>
>  I selected this set of tradeoffs out of several possibilities, and I
>  continue to stand by it.
>
>
>  > and if this had to mean non-latin user names on projects based
>  > on latin languages?
>
>  That is a separate issue, not actually related to SUL at all (as shown
>  by the fact that it came up in discussions long before we were near
>  rolling out global accounts).
>
>  Tim's proposal for use of aliases neatly addresses this (and would
>  address it just fine completely without any existence of SUL, as well).
>
>
>  -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
>
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