maru dubshinki wrote:
On 7/17/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
It's recommended but not required. There aren't many reasons left to upload free images to en:, but there's some inertia resisting the change. Plus, in the absence of single signon, it would result in many more redundant logins to merge later, so my personal inclination is not to press the issue until after single signon is up and running.
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Stan
Not quite following you here; what do you mean by "redundant logins to merge later"? It is a bit annoying to have to login to Commons to upload an image, but I don't think that's what you are getting at...
Yes, that's what I'm getting at. One of the practical headaches with implementing single signon is that there are many thousands of identical usernames. If you can somehow determine that the same username in several projects is actually all the same person, then great, merging is trivial, but there are still thousands for which identity is unclear. Those logins are going to get username changes, but then if the renaming was a mistake, that's some manual work to fix. If we go and pressure 50,000 en: editors to make commons logins today, some percentage of those will need manual fixing too.
Post single signon, it should be possible to set up some semi-automated mass moves to commons, and that will quickly take care of recent en:-only uploads.
Stan