Jimmy Wales wrote:
Timwi wrote: 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.
There is the problem that some users want and have different usernames in different wiki's. The only way to handle this is keeping all those 'lokal' users and first of all allow additional sigle-signon on the 'Master user DB' which should handle not only single-sign-on, but even all those lokal user accounts. I remember to designed some DB-schema to handle this, but I don't remember if I posted it. If it is from interest, I try to search or rebuild it, not realy a problem. And should work inside phase 3.