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Tim Starling wrote:
Some lucky people might be able to create global accounts at the moment,
Woo-hoo!
One note -- when breezing through the unification form it's a bit easy to miss that you haven't actually changed anything yet after you've put in your password(s). The final action button is at the bottom, below a potentially *very* long list of wikis, and it's easy to miss the warning message at the top.
Now, I did this first thing in the morning before my coffee, but I did *write* the thing in the first place so that doesn't say good things about its usability. ;)
Perhaps moving the final unification button above the list would do the job.
- Local access control on account creation is largely broken. The new
user log, IP blocks on account creation, and AntiSpoof conflict checking are broken. Only private and fishbowl wikis are still protected. 2. Email address changes are local and don't propagate properly to the other wikis. 3. There's no cookie sharing so you have to log in to each wiki separately.
3) is going to be interesting. :)
- There's no shared preferences except password
This one's tough; often it'd be convenient to have the same prefs everywhere, but sometimes it's not. Don't know the best way to satisfy everybody...
- You can't rename a global account.
We'll definitely be wanting that in the long run. Need to be clear about permissions, though...
What may be best for most cases is likely to allow people to rename their own accounts cleanly. The simplest, from a user and anti-vandalism point of view, would be to make it easy to link a new name to your existing account; you could then go by the new name, but retain your credentials, history, edit count etc while keeping the visible link to the old name for public tracking purposes.
Something to consider, anyway.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)