Apparently it was not beyond the MW developers, bless 'em. From the MediaWiki 1.6 Release Notes http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES?view=m arkup:
- Allow cookies to be shared between multiple wikis with a shared user
database
-- Joshua
On 3/27/06 5:17 PM, "Joshua Yeidel" yeidel@wsu.edu wrote:
Mashing the code to use the same user table for different wikis is well beyond _my_ appetite for punishment, but you may feel differently.