On 7/18/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Although getting a developer with shell access to register accounts globally would work, I don't think many would be willing. Even if this service was strictly limited to stewards, that would include 30 users.
It's certainly an easier script to write than full blown single username unification, or whatever the heck it's called (I'm not looking it up). It wouldn't even have to be strictly limited to stewards. The only part I'm taking issue with is "there are some cases where accounts will need to be renamed".
Clarifying, I wouldn't have any problem with a script which went through and, for each username, chose a "winner" through some reasonable algorithm (e.g. highest number of recent edits) and then created an account with the same username, email, and password on every wiki where that username didn't already exist. That seems to be roughly equal to stage 1 of the current single username unification (TM) scheme.