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From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
bounces(a)Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brian Carpenter
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:39 PM
To: mediawiki-l(a)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,
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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