[Foundation-l] Design goals for the election and board selection process

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Well it is. It is the exact reason why it is so unpalatable that is has been
so long in the making. With time passing by, this problem has become worse.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/18/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Eliminating username conflicts with unified login might make it
> > possible for a third-party script to count edits on every wiki, but
> > unified login will apparently not combine contribution logs. "Single
> > user login" does not mean "single crosswiki account per user"; this
> > common misconception might be the reason it is documented as "unified
> > login".
> >
> > For more information on what unified login will actually be, see <
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login >.
> >
> "Since the new system only allows one user per name, there are some
> cases where accounts will need to be renamed."
>
> What a horrible idea.  I sure hope that's not what unified login will
> actually be.
>
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