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

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:

>On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Unified login would register the 638 remaining accounts.  I don't need
>>user rights on those wikis; stewards add rights from Meta when they're
>>needed, and remove them when they're done.
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>>I'm not aware of any current way to automate account creation, since
>>captchas must be solved when registering on all Wikimedia wikis.
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>It would have to be done by a developer, of course.  Just implement
>unified login minus the account renaming bit.
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Simply preventing newbies from creating an account with a name that 
already exists on any account would be a good first step

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