On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:17 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hello knowledgeable people!
I'm trying to write about unified login for a larger text about Wikimedia and wanted to double-check my understanding of the process:
- is this text currently correct? What should be added to it?
"At this time, you must create an account on for each new project you wish to work on. This is changing with the introduction in mid-2008 of single-user login, where users can link their existing accounts across all Wikimedia projects."
- in future, will people be able to create just one account on a
project and be able to log in with it on all of the projects? Or will new users still have to manually create their account (using the same name) on each wiki they wish to work on?
Currently, they just: 1. Create an account on any wiki. 2. Visit Special:MergeAccount and follow the instructions (this merges their accounts and creates a global one) 3. Profit 3.1. the ability to log-in to any wiki with the same userdata without creating a new account 3.2. "global session" type thing where with one log-in, you are logged into most of the wiki-sites at once.
- After SUL is fully deployed, when users create a new account (on,
say, the english wikipedia) will that name automatically be 'reserved' for use on all Wikimedia wikis? [if so, when will this happen?]
I'm pretty sure that the answers for 3 are "yes" and "now"
- is there a preferred name for SUL yet? Single-user login? Unified
login? Others?
I think those are all used interchangeably, but we use "global user" in the software. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers
Thanks in advance, and feel free to send me edits/comments off-list. :) -- phoebe