[Mediawiki-l] Registration merging / template mods / transferring articles

[Sam Rowe]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:05:01PM -0500, David Wendt wrote:
# Rowan Collins wrote:
# 
# >On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:09:32 -0600, =James Birkholz=
# ><j.birchwood at verizon.net> wrote:
# > 
# >
# >>1) I'll want to merge the registration for the wiki portion with the
# >>non-wiki existing site. 
# >>   
# >>
# >
# >You're not the first to consider this, but I can't remember off-hand
# >anyone reporting that (and how) they achieved it successfully. You
# >could try searching the archives (Google site:mail.wikimedia.org +your
# >query), but I guess the easiest approach is to hack up
# >includes/SpecialUserlogin.php to access the extra bits of database and
# >whatever that the other parts of the site use. I think there may be an
# >authentication plugin system "on the way" which could be useful in
# >this regard, but don't quote me on that.
# >
# > 
# >
# Unified login will be extremly hard, as it requires changes to lots of 
# functions.
# 
# In the future we should have a way for scripts to 'talk' to each other 
# and syncronize login information. I'm working on something for my own 
# seperate project, which wont be done for a while.

Isn't authentication to a directory server (via LDAP) on its
way? Couldn't that solve this problem?

-Sam