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

[Anthony]

On 7/18/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
Well, there's always a chance that the whole concept is just going to
be dropped, right?  Does anyone actually care about unified login, as
defined (having the same username on all wikis)?  I know a lot of
people care about the things which are supposedly dependent on unified
login, like having unified contribution lists, and unified
preferences, and unified talk page notification, but none of these
things are actually dependent on unified login (if defined as having
the same same username on all wikis).

Isn't it a GFDL violation to change someone's username (and thus their
entries in the history section) without their permission?

> 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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