On 13/02/12 19:56, Nicolas Brouard INED wrote:
> Thanks John for your comment. It would mean that people logging with an email 
> will have a default account (lowest ID with the same email or whatever rule). 
> 
> For authorship Wikimedia doesn't encourage multiple account names (multiple 
> (>3?) pseudos are blamed). And usually, for a corporate wiki you don't have 
> multiple accounts. If you decide to change your name for any reason (divorce 
> for example) you are supposed to have a (new) unique name. You usually can 
> also have email aliases. 
> 
> And if you want to log on a specific account name, you can copy and paste 
> your account name (if your keyboard doesn't allow you to enter your real, not 
> transliterated, name).
> 
> Thus, I am not sure that it is strong objection for corporate wikis at least.
> 
> PS: I am trying to understand how to have a working MyAuthPlugin.php and to 
> get the email in authenticate but it requires time and I haven't found so 
> many examples on the Web.
> 
> Any hint or comment is welcome.
> 
> Nicolas

I don't think you can do that with just an auth plugin. You would need
to modify the SpecialUserLogin code to look for that email.

PS: What's the big issue with copy&paste or transliteration? Doesn't
your users have a keyboard layout able to type *their own name*?
I understand the issue when a third party needs to enter them, but eg.
Russian people usually have/can switch to a cyrillic keyboard layout.


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