On 20/02/15 00:58, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hi all,
I'm the one who started that bug-now-task a while back, and for context, it was based directly on user feedback. What MzM says above is right. I was working with a casual (but quite good) editor who said to me "well, I'd edit that Wikipedia page, but I don't edit very often and I can never remember what my login is, since my usual login was taken. But if I could enter my email address, it would be a lot easier and I'd be more likely to just do it."
It looks like it would be enough to provide a "send forgotten username to this email" feature. Which is bug 13015 [1], fixed in 2011 [2] and afaik never enabled.
As it provides a list of usernames, there's no issue with "too-many-usernames, which to use for login"?
1- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15015 2- http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CentralAuth/Centr...
As an aside, I wonder if login-by-email may lead to lower-quality usernames, which is an important part of your identity in the community.