On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
<pathoschild(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Eliminating username conflicts with unified login might make it
possible for a third-party script to count edits on every wiki, but
unified login will apparently not combine contribution logs. "Single
user login" does not mean "single crosswiki account per user"; this
common misconception might be the reason it is documented as "unified
login".
For more information on what unified login will actually be, see <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login >.
"Since the new system only allows one user per name, there are some
cases where accounts will need to be renamed."
What a horrible idea. I sure hope that's not what unified login will
actually be.
Why is that such a hoorrible idea?
I suspect that the naming conflicts are bigger now than when the whole
idea was first bruited.
Ec