Basically this comes back again to the "cool... oh wait SUL" thought process...
Way back at the dawn of CentralAuth, the whole merging accounts 'thing' was hopefully touted as a transitionary phase, with the ultimate nirvana being having every username on every wiki either part of a global account, reserved for a global account, or universally available; whereupon SUL would cease to be an issue for projects like this (User:BobBot is a universal global account affiliated to the User:Bob global account, everywhere). Does anyone have any stats on how far short we are of that goal? As in, what fraction of accounts on all wikis are still part of the 'messy' part of SUL rather than the 'clean' part?
--HM
On 1 January 2012 23:27, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Looks good. Although I'd rename the "member of Group:Bob" to "belongs to User:Bob", so you would have: User:Bob User:BobBot - belongs to User:Bob User:Bob (testing) - belongs to User:Bob User:Bob (vector skin) - belongs to User:Bob
Although this opens the can of accounts with different names on several wikis. User:BobBot may belong to User:Bob everywhere but in wikis Foo, Bar and Baz, where Bob username was taken and he is known as 'Bob2'. Showing that "BobBot is of Bob" may be a bit confusing as in that wiki Bob is a different guy (even if coherent due to usage of sul usernames).
It's not a problem to have sul Bob2 as belonging to Bob, but the local Bob may belong to global "Bob Smith". And if we start user groups, the Bob Smiths out there will ask for them to be recognised. Maybe there could be local accounts attached to user groups separatedly from sul ones.
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