I still have accounts on those wikis that need a usernane rename. Should those wikis get opened today I would need to hunt that action and request a usernane rename before making edits. I merely want all of it to be done in an orderly manner.
Thats half of the problem.
Another problem is that the content on closed/locked wikis do not get updated. This causes complications on IW links for example. If there is a bad IW link on a closed wiki, fixing it is imposible. This can have a negative effect on other wikis with various scripts, which can be fixed programaticaly (closed wikis would be ingored). But you see, for humans visiting the wiki in question that is not the case. There is also the problem of left over spam (it may happen). It wouldn't be nice to bother a dev to unlock the wiki just for that.
I guess what I am saying is, it would be nice if bot accounts and admin accounts could edit closed/locked wikis. Stewards can grant bot flags and admin flags when due. I wasn't thinking of a global group for this.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.comwrote:
On 8/30/08, AGK agkwiki@googlemail.com wrote:
Yes, private wikis are not included in CentralAuth. The creation of an account on any closed WMF site (for examples, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix; bottom of page, any
site
which has (private) appended to its entry) is not affected by the
presence
of an identical or similar global account.
Okay so let's say he enables SUL for all "open" WMF sites, and then one or more closed wikis re-opens due to renewed interest and happens to contain a user with the same name as the SUL... Would the SUL become incomplete and need to be redone in order to collect the stray accounts or would the SUL assimilate them without the user actively confirming that they are the same person?
—C.W.
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