Erik Moeller schrieb:
re: the new email authentication in 1.5: I assume it will be necessary for a user to authenticate themselves on every wiki on which they have an account to use email features on that wiki. For Wikimedia, where many people have accounts on a dozen wikis or more, that might be a major PITA. I would suggest disabling this until we have single login -- unless someone is willing to hack it so that a single authentication will take effect for all wikis.
I only can say again: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUL -- single user login is a long-wanted, one user database for common unique name and user accounts a must.
The Mediawiki page shows the three most important proposals.
Is Kate's namechecker http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Namecheck again available ? Kate had programmed a neat tool, with which those accounts with the same certain name accross all wikis could be identified. In addition, those with the same stored e-mail address where also indentified by same numbers... it was a really nice tool and a kind of pre-requisite for SUL
Perhaps it would be clever to delay the work towards release 1.5 and to concentrate on this long-wanted SUL ? T.