https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14407

Krinkle <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #48 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2012-03-16 04:56:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #47)
> (In reply to comment #46)
> > In the more general case, I have a suggestion, wouldn't it make much more 
> > sense
> > to allow all *.wikimedia.org domains and blacklist the few that aren't under
> > WMF control? Even if it takes a bit of hacking in the authentication 
> > system, it
> > seems worth it.
> 
> The only way we can sensibly do that, is to then load an image for each of
> those safe domains. Which is still going to mean loading 50+ images, which for
> the generally little benefit, I'm not sure if it's worth the overhead for 
> users

And the additional server side overhead of 50+ extra requests for every user
that logs in. And 50 more local account (auto-)creation for each Wikimedia wiki
user.

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