"Dan Carlson" minutiaeman@st-minutiae.com schrieb:
I'd be curious to know how many "duplicate" users across wikis there might be. If there aren't that many -- and somehow, I don't think there would be (aside from maybe Meta and en) -- it could probably be a simple matter for someone to go through on a case-by-case basis and clear or resolve the two user names.
There's many of them. Luckily most of those would be the same person indeed, but there's quite a few cases where that is not the case, or unknown.
I've got a question based on some previous discussion I read on the list: do the people using Wikipedia in other languages think that combining user bases is a good idea? As I understand it, not everyone would like the idea of combining the user accounts in such a fashion. (Personally, I've got no stake in the matter; I even think that combining the users would be a great idea, because I've got accounts on both en and meta. I just think the issue might need addressing, is all. :-))
Yes! What I would in particular like, is to have the ability to check at once new messages on my User talk: in all languages, and having a merged watchlist. I have a user page at about 30 Wikipedias (that's what you get from being an active interwiki-user). It would be good to know whenever there is a message for me anywhere (or one for Robbot, for that matter).
Andre Engels