On 12/20/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/20/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Rich Holton wrote:
Andrey wrote:
We talk about the English-language Wikipedia here, no? Other Wikimedia projects allow usernames in non-Latin scripts, as best I know. For
instance,
in Russian wikipedia, you may get a username in Cyrillic. Most
complaints
are from those editors who have a non-Latin username in their national wikipedia and fail to see why they can't keep it in English wikipedia.
Best,
Andrey
Single User Login (SUL) _is_ coming soon. This means that someone with
a
login on the Russian Wikipedia will be able to have the same username
on
the English Wikipedia (just as an example).
The question is, are we ready for this?
-Rich _______________________________________________
More than "will be able to have". "Will have to have". It will be one account for all projects.
"BUT, soon, this will not be possible any more. All users will have only ONE account."
Nothing is keeping users from creating a separate account under another name if they want to have different identities on different wikis for a legitimate reason.
When we go to one account I think it would be a good feature for people to be able to have language-specific versions of their account name.
That would make it a lot easier for people to merge accounts, anyway.