On 5/30/08, Rotem Liss <rotemliss(a)gmail.com> wrote:
3. If Mr.A and Mr.B have friendly chat, and end
up with,
* Mr.B willing to let Mr.A get global account of user123, since
Mr.A really want to use many wikis than Mr.B
* Mr.B willing to continue using his local user123 account (by not
changing account name)
* Mr.A also willing to let Mr.B continue to use local user123
account (by not changing Mr.B account name).
* How can Mr.A and Mr.B do, to meet this?
Easy, Mr.A and Mr.B should both become MediaWiki developers, and write
the
relevant code by pair-programming.
You mean the patch are welcome?
Well, I have just written the patch, that give privilege to group
'mergeaccount', in my previous email.
I think it is a good idea to allow the Stewards to set a certain account as
the home account, not necessarily with a special user group (which is not
the right tool for such a one-time task), but with a drop-down box in
It may not be a one-time task.
The global account may be revoked later, and given to another account,
back and forth :)
the right tool for such a one-time task), but with a
drop-down box in
Special:CentralAuth, shown if the global account does not exist. This
But it need too much coding which is unnecessary?
drop-down box will create a global account with only
the selected account
Just setting the home wiki flag, by not creating a global account, may
be more suitable.
attached (and maybe also users with the same
[confirmed] e-mail?). Then the
user will be able to attach anyone else via Special:MergeAccount.
It currently support attaching the orphan account into the existing
global account?