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

[Anthony]

On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unified login would register the 638 remaining accounts.  I don't need
> user rights on those wikis; stewards add rights from Meta when they're
> needed, and remove them when they're done.
>
> I'm not aware of any current way to automate account creation, since
> captchas must be solved when registering on all Wikimedia wikis.
>
It would have to be done by a developer, of course.  Just implement
unified login minus the account renaming bit.

> On 7/18/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As a steward, I would love to have unified login. There are 638 wikis
> > > where I still need to manually register an account so that I can
> > > respond on any wiki without delay <
> > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Sandbox2 >.
> > >
> > Unified login wouldn't help, because user rights are local.  You'd
> > just have 638 accounts with no user rights.
> >
> > And it's also possible to automate such account creation without
> > implementing unified login (without renaming any accounts).
>
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