On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Richard Grevers wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:17:45 -0800 (PST), Brion Vibber
Before we go further: you are aware that each wiki has a separate user database, and that you have to create the username separately on each wiki, right? Have you ever logged in on meta.wikipedia.org before? Did you create an account there?
I wasn't aware of that, because I'm not aware of it being stated clearly anywhere (the login page would be a good place!).
I'll add a note.
Is that why there are no links from the english wiki to meta.wikipedia.org?
I'm not quite sure what you mean -- there are numerous links to meta from the main page, recentchanges, and various other places.
This raises another question: What provision is there to prevent someone else grabbing my wikipedia.en username on the meta wiki and appearing to be me? Or to prevent me registering as, say, Susan Mason on meta?
The same thing that prevents someone else from grabbing your wikipedia.en username on slashdot.org or yahoo.com: politeness and/or lack of interest in doing so.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)