[Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts

[Philippe Beaudette]

Perhaps someone can explain this to me a bit better... for instance, my username on en: is Philippe.  There is a Philippe on just about every other project.  How will that work?  For instance, will several other Philippes all need to change their (well-established in most cases - thousands of edits) usernames?  That sounds like a recipe for disaster.  A website I used to be on lost a significant number of users over something similar (several city based websites that went to a single login).  Please excuse me if this is a question which has been asked before.

Philippe

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Casey Brown 
  To: 'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List' 
  Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 2:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts


  Yes, we do... but that may not come up any time soon.  Brion is working on
  it, but he also has many other important things to do.

  Casey Brown

  -----Original Message-----
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  [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of GerardM
  Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 3:32 PM
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  Cc: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts

  Hoi,
  This is such a waste of time.

  We need single user login.

  Thanks,
       GerardM

  On 5/13/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:
  >
  > Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to stop
  > impersonation.  If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project,
  > make
  > sure it is linked from your main account.  Otherwise, it may get blocked.
  > An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your accounts at
  > Meta and link that page to all your other sites.  This will, hopefully,
  > make
  > it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for your accounts to be
  > identified.
  >
  > A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be
  > found
  > at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Casey Brown
  > Cbrown1023
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