On 8/14/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 8/14/07, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)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
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