Thomas Corell wrote:
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.
Hmmm, that's interesting. Complicated but interesting.
At Yahoo, I notice that I can have multiple 'profiles' for a single login. I'm not 100% sure what that means, but I suppose it's similar to what you are saying?
Under a system like you're proposing, I could create a new 'master' account, 'Jimbo Wales', and then consolidate all of my 'local' accounts under it, so for example, 'Jimbo Wales' could "own" 'en:Jimbo Wales' and 'de:Jimbo Wales' and even 'jp:Yojimbo' (just a joke, I don't really have such an account as that.
I love the concept, but does it introduce a layer of unfriendly complexity for the end user?
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The way I was thinking of it is that people could have a single signon across all the wikipedias, and if they want a different id on one, then they could just create it, and it would work everywhere of course, but they'd just have two accounts and could use one on 'jp' and one on 'en' if they wanted.
Your solution is more elegant, in that it does away with the problem of namespace collisions, I guess.
But it could be very confusing for users in some cases?
--Jimbo