On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 18:00, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > If we are serious about having a right to fork we need to make it easy for > editors to keep their account, and possibly even userrights in both forks, > otherwise whichever fork you have to create a new account for is at a huge > disadvantage. But for privacy/security reasons I don't think that WMF should > give the fork a copy of the databases that includes the userids and their > logins. Perhaps this could be finessed by having the WMF create a bridge to > allow wikimedians to activate their existing account at the forked wiki, and > the forked wiki would presumably not allow editors to otherwise create > accounts using names that had edits imported from Wikimedia. >
Simple: make it so you can use Wikimedia logins as OpenIDs (or even just as OpenID delegates, so you can point your Wikimedia profile to an existing OpenID provider). -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
