On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 00:06, Thomas Corell wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Mmm, not exactly. They all use the same base source, but they're duplicated in a series of directories. Each has various settings in LocalSettings.php different, such as language selection, name of database to use, the URL to use for self-links, etc.
Just to be sure, you could change some code in any of the php files in the e.g. german wikipedia only?
One could, but one would only rarely want to.
There are a few performance tweaks that have been hacked into the English wiki specifically (page counters disabled; redirect search to google during peak hours), and the Chinese and Meta stylesheets have been tweaked a little, but other than they all should be identical aside from LocalSettings.php.
I though the only file which is language dependend are the Language*.php ones and Localsettings.php.
That's right. The above are installation-dependent, not language-dependent.
Well, that are problems you got, if you take the easy way. First of all, you save the passwords in clear text in the db? *running to the source* found md5 *wipe* But no salt. Only the hash! *shiver*. I see the urgent reason to get new user accounts and passworts.
Suggestions on improving security are always welcome...
I still not shure why we can't have both, Single sign on (I like those buzzwords ;) and different names.
Mainly because that would be strange and inconsistent. :) We need single-name ability to prevent name-snatching. For instance, someone other than Aoineko signed up the Aoineko name on meta.wikipedia.org in order to slyly misattribute posts under his name.
Now, hypothetically we could _also_ allow other names to be hung onto that account, but that seems excessive IMHO.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)