On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/02/15 00:58, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm the one who started that bug-now-task a while back, and for
context, it was based directly on user feedback. What MzM says above
is right. I was working with a casual (but quite good) editor who said
to me "well, I'd edit that Wikipedia page, but I don't edit very often
and I can never remember what my login is, since my usual login was
taken. But if I could enter my email address, it would be a lot easier
and I'd be more likely to just do it."
It looks like it would be enough to provide a "send forgotten username to
this email" feature.
Which is bug 13015 [1], fixed in 2011 [2] and afaik never enabled.
As it provides a list of usernames, there's no issue with
"too-many-usernames, which to use for login"?
Hmm. I just tried asking for a password reset with my email [on
English Wikipedia] and what I got was a list of temporary passwords
for all the accounts associated with that email (a bunch, in my case,
since I registered variations on my full name). The email lists the
username and the temp password for each account.
But yes, it's not clear that link can be used for retrieving login as
well as password. Changing the text to 'Forgot your password or
login?' could help. (Of course, checking your email and resetting the
password is still an extra step for the infrequent editor).
-- phoebe
p.s. this is an old issue; that was still likely an unfixed bug when I
first filed it!
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