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

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:

>On 7/18/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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 >.
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>"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.
>
Why is that such a hoorrible idea? 

I suspect that the naming conflicts are bigger now than when the whole 
idea was first bruited.

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