Perhaps someone can explain this to me a bit better... for instance, my username on en: is Philippe. There is a Philippe on just about every other project. How will that work? For instance, will several other Philippes all need to change their (well-established in most cases - thousands of edits) usernames? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. A website I used to be on lost a significant number of users over something similar (several city based websites that went to a single login). Please excuse me if this is a question which has been asked before.
Philippe
----- Original Message ----- From: Casey Brown To: 'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List' Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
Yes, we do... but that may not come up any time soon. Brion is working on it, but he also has many other important things to do.
Casey Brown
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of GerardM Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 3:32 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Cc: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
Hoi, This is such a waste of time.
We need single user login.
Thanks, GerardM
On 5/13/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to stop impersonation. If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project, make sure it is linked from your main account. Otherwise, it may get blocked. An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your accounts at Meta and link that page to all your other sites. This will, hopefully, make it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for your accounts to be identified.
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be found at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
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See http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:BV1 there's some explanation in the slides there.
Be warned: this could be totally outdated by now.
Greetings, Tuvic
2007/5/13, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com:
Perhaps someone can explain this to me a bit better... for instance, my username on en: is Philippe. There is a Philippe on just about every other project. How will that work? For instance, will several other Philippes all need to change their (well-established in most cases - thousands of edits) usernames? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. A website I used to be on lost a significant number of users over something similar (several city based websites that went to a single login). Please excuse me if this is a question which has been asked before.
Philippe
Thanks, Tuvic - that answered my questions!
Philippe ----- Original Message ----- From: Tuvic To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
See http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:BV1 there's some explanation in the slides there.
Be warned: this could be totally outdated by now.
Greetings, Tuvic
2007/5/13, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com:
Perhaps someone can explain this to me a bit better... for instance, my username on en: is Philippe. There is a Philippe on just about every other project. How will that work? For instance, will several other Philippes all need to change their (well-established in most cases - thousands of edits) usernames? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. A website I used to be on lost a significant number of users over something similar (several city based websites that went to a single login). Please excuse me if this is a question which has been asked before.
Philippe
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