On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
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.
Please don't make automated moves.. Commons is not yet as effective at dealing with En's copyright problems as en is.
Also, creating dupe accounts isn't so bad.. so long as they are dupes of you and not dupes of someone else.