On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:40:19 -0800 (PST), Brion Vibber
<vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu> wrote:
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)