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.
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