[Foundation-l] To make it easy to fork and leave

[Gustavo Carrancio]

Yes, leave and forking is our main problem. Sure. I think that to make easy
to fork will be something like to show the exit way to some people.... well,
let me think one minute....Yes! excelent!

2011/8/15 Tom Morris <tom en tommorris.org>

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 18:00, WereSpielChequers
> <werespielchequers en gmail.com> wrote:
> > If we are serious about having a right to fork we need to make it easy
> for
> > editors to keep their account, and possibly even userrights in both
> forks,
> > otherwise whichever fork you have to create a new account for is at a
> huge
> > disadvantage. But for privacy/security reasons I don't think that WMF
> should
> > give the fork a copy of the databases that includes the userids and their
> > logins. Perhaps this could be finessed by having the WMF create a bridge
> to
> > allow wikimedians to activate their existing account at the forked wiki,
> and
> > the forked wiki would presumably not allow editors to otherwise create
> > accounts using names that had edits imported from Wikimedia.
> >
>
> Simple: make it so you can use Wikimedia logins as OpenIDs (or even
> just as OpenID delegates, so you can point your Wikimedia profile to
> an existing OpenID provider).
>
> --
> Tom Morris
> <http://tommorris.org/>
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