So, can I simply have one login, and access every wiki-project, and every
language wiki, without having to re-register for every single one?
James
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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Manske
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:31 AM
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Tabular data in Wikipedia (Wikispecies->
Wikicommons)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
We also have the same database design problems with
interlanguage
links, user accounts, and logins.
So we should fix these. Create a single database that contains
* interlanguage links (for all languages)
* user accounts/logins
* raw data for species/elements/whatever
Interlanguage links would have to be extracted and removed from the articles
and put into an extra textbox on editing, which IMHO would be an
improvement.
Local user accounts can stay as they are, but have a "user_global_id"
field that, when non-zero, uses the global instead of the local one.
User accounts with the same name *and* password can be automatically merged
into a global account once.
Raw data would at least need these fields
* type (species, element, etc.)
* ID (latin species name, for example)
* key
* value
Personally, I would include the wikicommons project into that design, so we
have a central database for images and multimedia at the same place.
Magnus
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