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

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Do people care, absolutely. Does the GFDL have anything to say about the
name of a user ID, absolutely not. It is about unambiguously attributing
contributions.. I would even hazard to guess that the GFDL should welcome
it.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/18/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> 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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