On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)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.