[Mediawiki-l] Interwiki userlist

[zelulax]

Platonides: ok, thx for the info. Actually I am creating 3 new wikis (using
same DB, different prefixes), could you please tell me what to do to share
the user DB or give any link about this issue? I have only phpMyAdmin access
and I'm a complete slq noob :-/

Thx in advance.

On Dec 26, 2007 8:33 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Dec 26, 2007 6:57 PM, Christensen, Courtney
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I think it is called "Single Sign-On".  It's a big new feature they are
> >> turning on for Wikipedia and its siblings.  Hope that helps your
> search,
> >> I haven't implemented it yet myself so I can't be of more help.
>
> zelulax wrote:
> > Hmm... maybe this extension is helpful. But it's status is
> "experimental",
> > so I don't know if I should risk to use it. Does anyone installed this
> one?
> >
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth
> >
> > Thx in advance.
> >
> > Z.
>
> That extension is the same as SUL (Single Sign-On), which is NOT what
> Kenny asked.
> It's a system for wikis where you have one account on each and you want
> to merge them. If you are creating the wikis, they should be configured
> to share the user db from the beginning. This is the method used at wikia.
>
>
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