On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:42:02PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Hang about. I was shown a tool that can be used to check accounts on other wikis. I used it and found all the ones I expected plus one other. I just asked what to do about it. I was then told it had no edits and would be assigned to me under SUL. I do not want it, but also do not want people to think it is my account if it gets used. If SUL gives it to me, how would I get rid of it? I'm just being security minded in the same way as I improved my passwd last week.
If the account has no edits, then it will basically cease to exist when we switch to SUL. You will then have an account on all Wikimedia projects with your username. You can't get rid of it, since it isn't really a separate account. That's the whole point of SUL.
OK, I understand. I was not clear that this was how SUL is going to work. I thought that SUL meant that I would not have an account on all wikis, but that when I created one on a new wiki, it would automatically give me the single user name and passwd. It does seem rather excessive for every user on the en wikipedia to have an account on every small wiki. Is is not a burden on the small wiki's servers?
Brian.