-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l- bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brian Carpenter Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:39 PM To: mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Best strategy to populate User data from Single Sign On?
I would like the common name (Bobby Jones) to appear on MediaWiki pages as Username. But to account for duplicate names (200,000+ employees here) it would be acceptable to have the Username be Commonfullname_Uniqueemployeenum (Bobby Jones 395234).
What happens when Roberta Jones gets married and becomes 'Roberta Chang' a.k.a. 'Bobby Chang'? The next time she visits the wiki, 'Bobby Chang 395234' will not be found in the user table and the AutoLogin script will create a new user. Poor Bobby will now have to manage a double identity. Or worse, she will email me and ask if I can move all her old history/data/pages to her new name.
A) I don't know how to do that B) there are 200,000+ potential wiki users here. About half of them could all get married, divorced, widowed and remarried,
Best to figure this out before we release this to production, _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
There was an extension for mediawiki 1.5:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Renameuser
Not sure if it still works.
Otherwise, you may have to use some kind of login that will never change (not terribly easy with people getting married).
If you use LDAP, you can extend my LDAP Authentication plugin to incorporate the code from the rename user extension, and some tracking mechanism in LDAP to tell when a user has changed names, and automatically rename their old account.
If you verify the rename user code works, I may be able to help you with adding it to my plugin.
Also, my plugin supports pulling preferences from the LDAP server. So you can have their "Real Name" and "Nickname" preferences updated automatically if it is changed in LDAP.
If you aren't using LDAP, then sorry for the bother :).
V/r,
Ryan Lane