On 8/14/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 8/14/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Good thought! The merging system knows internally what reason was used to make the match, and it would indeed be helpful to display that to the user.
At the moment that's only stored internally.
Is there any reason we don't suggest for merging accounts with matchin names but differing emails?
We do, explicitly.
... if the user knows the password, the account is effectively theirs seems silly to make them take the extra step of going and changing the email before it shows in the list.
Yes, that would be silly -- that's why they're instead prompted to enter the password.
I'm assuming this doesn't work on the test wiki yet -- I was prompted to enter a password and it only accepted the one I used with my login to the test wiki. It identified en.wikipedia as my home account but said I would have to log in at en.wikipedia to complete the merge process.
However, when I changed my password on test to the one I use on enwikipedia, it suggested all of the "mindspillage" accounts to merge, only prompting for my password on accounts where I have both different email and password.
Is this what's intended?
-Kat