Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 8/13/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please note that the single user login account merging system is up and running in a live demo state since Wikimania at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount
If your account on test.wikipedia.org matches your main one, you can try it out there and check for conflicting accounts. We'll go into the opt-in beta for actual logins over the next couple of weeks.
Where is the correct place for feedback?
Here is fine for now. It'll be progressively more opened up as we go into private, then opt-in beta, and then general availability. During that progress we'll all be fixing things up and figuring out how to best 'advertise' and document it -- something that's very difficult until we've had people really trying it out.
The automatic home wiki selector is fairly smart, but it's not always right. It would be nice if you were given a drop down with the automatic selection selected by default. Otherwise I think we may often end up with "thats not my home wiki! <back> now what?!".
*nod*
As discussed in the Q&A session at Wikimania, the home wiki will be user-selectable. I hadn't quite gotten that far when polishing up the live test for public demoing, though.
(Are videos from the Wikimania sessions available online yet? I'm a little lost on how that was supposed to work.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)