[Foundation-l] To make it easy to fork and leave

[Tom Morris]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 18:00, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we are serious about having a right to fork we need to make it easy for
> editors to keep their account, and possibly even userrights in both forks,
> otherwise whichever fork you have to create a new account for is at a huge
> disadvantage. But for privacy/security reasons I don't think that WMF should
> give the fork a copy of the databases that includes the userids and their
> logins. Perhaps this could be finessed by having the WMF create a bridge to
> allow wikimedians to activate their existing account at the forked wiki, and
> the forked wiki would presumably not allow editors to otherwise create
> accounts using names that had edits imported from Wikimedia.
>

Simple: make it so you can use Wikimedia logins as OpenIDs (or even
just as OpenID delegates, so you can point your Wikimedia profile to
an existing OpenID provider).

-- 
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>