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

[Anthony]

On 7/18/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah, sure... I wonder when an account that cannot be identified, has no
> email or description would suddenly delete pages, how would people react...

Apparently you think you have a good idea of how people would react to
a random account name being created and fixing page move vandalism on
a wiki which is extremely inactive, though?  I think it'd be a
combination of relief and questions of WTF, which of course would be
answered after as soon as the problem was taken care of.

> No, random account doesnt sound like you've read yourself in very much into
> stewardswork...
>
I was commenting on a particular scenario which I was given, by you,
and stated that creating an account with a random name would be a
faster way to resolve the problem than the solution which you
presented.

> Lodewijk
>
> 2007/7/18, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> > On 7/18/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yes, of course you would, but right now a steward has to:
> > > *Notice that the request exists
> > > *Check whether he has an account. If so: log in
> > > *If not: create account.
> > > *Confirm emailaddress
> > > *The finally he can give himself the needed rights.
> > >
> > > By then over 50 vandal renames can be done by WoW & Co. Unified login
> would
> > > take at least away the "check whether he has account" and "create
> account"
> > > because he will have an account per definition of single user. The email
> > > doesnt have to be confirmed anymore. He only needs to give a short link
> on
> > > his userpage and grant himself (herself) the rights.
> > >
> > Why does the email have to be confirmed in the first place?  Can't the
> > account be created without an email address?  I can't imagine the time
> > savings is as significant as you're making it out to be, and there are
> > lots of ways to solve this problem which don't involve having the same
> > username on all wikis.
> >
> > In fact, the username is irrelevant.  A faster way to resolve the
> > problem would be:
> >
> > *Notice that the request exists
> > *Create an account with a random username and no email address
> > *The finally he can give himself the needed rights.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
>
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