Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
I think I now understand why using FCFS method to usurp global account is not suitable with the current system. Since, currently, the local account creation of the existing username is not blocked, FCFS will enable anyone to be able to usurp global account from existing unmerged user.
Do you refer to First Come, First Serve for _requesting_ the global account or _creating_ the first account with that name?
However, could you please answer the following questions?
- Is there a plan to prohibit local account creation of existing
ununified username?
It is supposed to be blocked :)
- While the selection is still depend on edit count, but why you not
collect the edit count of the subset sharing email or password, as stated in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Single_login_specifications ? (``GROUP 2: If an account name exists in multiple subsets, the subset with the highest edit count "wins".'') While the edit count still be used for activeness measurement, I'm please to write a patch for counting the subset's edit count, to make the selection be more reasonable.
- Why haven't you told me why sysop should take precedence in getting
global account?
Sysops are usually more important than just registered John Doe. A method as biased as editcount. :)