[Wikipedia-l] Require confirmed email address to upload images?

[Platonides]

Account merging will be done based on e-mails (as you can set your password 
based on emails) because you can't compare passwords (due to the salt). The 
merging by password will be done if your local and global account have the 
same password when you login. Not really automatic. See the evil-plans for 
more info.

"Erik Moeller" wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Phil Boswell wrote:
>> But to add the email you had to have known the password, and unless I'm
>> sorely mistaken it is possible to recover the email address for an 
>> automated
>> process to compare between two accounts, whereas if this were true for
>> passwords...
>
> Having confirmed e-mail addresses for all your accounts is definitely
> going to make migration easier, but we're only ever going to get that
> for a subset of accounts. If your accounts use the same password, the
> merging of old accounts into the global system can be done
> transparently for the user at login time.
>
> Now, it's always good to talk about single login strategies, because
> that will hopefully guilt trip Brion into finishing the implementation
> ;-). But I think it's a separate issue from the e-mail upload
> confirmation problem.
>
> Erik