On 11/11/06, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps have some sort of optional field in the
registration form,
that says: I come from this wiki project. and if they fill it out, a
bot will copy automatic deletion notices over there too. If they come
to commons:special:userlogin/create_account (or whatever the link is)
from another wiki well logged in, this part of the form can be passed
with get arguments e.g
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:userlogin?from=user:enwiki
of course single user login is a better solution, but I see that
happening a long time form now (If it ever happens)
-bawolff
OK, that would be brilliant, but I see SUL being implemented before I
see specialised signup pages being written just for Commons!
Anyway, I made a bug request that Commons get email notification (
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7870 ). I also notice
there is an open request to enable it on basically all the wikis (
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5505 - well, if they do
it for the "major wikis", I don't understand why they wouldn't do it
for all).
Anyway, one problem (again) is the technical, of getting Enotif, the
second is the social problem of training people to actually turn it on
and use it. (Unless we turn it on by default for new accounts, that
would be awesome...)
From the other discussion -- I am not to keen on the
idea of switching
warnings to email only. For one thing, they're /invisible/ to
the
wiki. No one else can tell if a person has already been warned or not.
For another, I don't really feel the need to reveal my email address
to every jerk copyright ignorer on the planet :P although I could get
a Wikimedia only one, but eh... hassle!
cheers,
Brianna