Timwi wrote:
* You need an extra login on each of them.
* You have to change your preferences on all of them individually.
* You have to follow several watchlists/recent changes lists.
I've traditionally referred to this group of features as "single
sign-on". I don't think that there's any opposition to these features
at all, and they are much desired.
This is how I feel it /should/ work. Of course, if any
of you can point
out disadvantages that I'm not seeing (except, of course, for the fact
that we don't have a software to do this yet), please feel free to reply
and discuss.
Well, there is one potential complication. Right now, someone could
be signed up as 'John' on the
en.wikipedia.org, and someone else could
be signed up as 'John' on the
de.wikipedia.org, and they might not
even know each other or realize that there's a collision.
So when we merge usernames across the wikipedia, we have to deal with
that _somehow_, and doing so in a sensitive way that doesn't annoy too
many people is a good idea.
But, really, I think that the main obstacle here is just code. It's
an easy thing to want something, it's a harder thing to make it
happen.
And I tend to agree with Brion and others who have come down on the
side of a need for immediate performance gains and bug fixes *for
right now*, as opposed to grand plans for the future.
But, you know, if you're interested in working on a grand plan for the
future, by all means... :-) I'd be eager to see single sign-on, that's
for sure.
--Jimbo