[Foundation-l] Design goals for the election and board selection process

[Anthony]

On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Eliminating username conflicts with unified login might make it
> possible for a third-party script to count edits on every wiki, but
> unified login will apparently not combine contribution logs. "Single
> user login" does not mean "single crosswiki account per user"; this
> common misconception might be the reason it is documented as "unified
> login".
>
> For more information on what unified login will actually be, see <
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login >.
>
"Since the new system only allows one user per name, there are some
cases where accounts will need to be renamed."

What a horrible idea.  I sure hope that's not what unified login will
actually be.