A single login would be quite nice. My question is, with the same name
being occupied on many different wikipedias, how would that be handled?
Your "Eloquence@enwikipedia" suggestion, with the screen showing only
"Eloquence" would be nice. I agree to wait on a true solution rather than a
hack.
James
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From: wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Erik Moeller
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:40 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Galleries on Wikipedia vs. galleries
onWikimediaCommons
James-
I would like to see each wikipedia be able to view
what's in the
Wiki-Commons from within their own wiki, but in their own language, and
when
they upload a picture, they upload to the commons, not
the wiki, thereby
saving server space. So, if I log into the German wiki, I can edit a
description of the picture, and from English, Dutch, etc., I can do the
same
thing, and it all describes the same picture, not
multiple copies of the
same picture.
If you have a Commons image like
[[Image:Magnolia blossom.jpg]]
and you use it on a Wikipedia, e.g.:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Magnolia_blossom.jpg
then you can edit the image description page and add a German text. The
image still comes from the commons - no disk space wasted.
However, it is not currently possible to upload files from any other
Wikimedia project directly to the Commons. That's because to do so, the
Commons would have to know who you are - and every wiki has its own
account database. We could use something like "Eloquence@enwikipedia" as
the identity, or offer an option to store the Commons password in the
preferences, but I'd rather wait until we have true single login instead
of using a temporary hack.
Regards,
Erik
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