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

[Anthony]

On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a steward, I would love to have unified login. There are 638 wikis
> where I still need to manually register an account so that I can
> respond on any wiki without delay <
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Sandbox2 >.
>
Unified login wouldn't help, because user rights are local.  You'd
just have 638 accounts with no user rights.

And it's also possible to automate such account creation without
implementing unified login (without renaming any accounts).

> But... aren't we getting sonewhat off-topic?
>
Off the topic of the thread, but not off the topic of the mailing list.

> Yours cordially,
> Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
>
> On 7/18/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > Does anyone actually care about unified login, as
> > defined (having the same username on all wikis)?  I know a lot of
> > people care about the things which are supposedly dependent on unified
> > login, like having unified contribution lists, and unified
> > preferences, and unified talk page notification, but none of these
> > things are actually dependent on unified login (if defined as having
> > the same same username on all wikis).
>
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