maru dubshinki wrote:
On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
It's recommended but not required. There
aren't many reasons left
to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting
the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result
in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal
inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is
up and running.
...
Stan
Not quite following you here; what do you mean by "redundant logins to
merge later"? It is a bit annoying to have to login to Commons to
upload an image, but I don't think that's what you are getting at...
Yes, that's what I'm getting at. One of the practical headaches
with implementing single signon is that there are many thousands
of identical usernames. If you can somehow determine that the
same username in several projects is actually all the same person,
then great, merging is trivial, but there are still thousands for
which identity is unclear. Those logins are going to get username
changes, but then if the renaming was a mistake, that's some
manual work to fix. If we go and pressure 50,000 en: editors to
make commons logins today, some percentage of those will need
manual fixing too.
Post single signon, it should be possible to set up some
semi-automated mass moves to commons, and that will quickly
take care of recent en:-only uploads.
Stan