https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35707
--- Comment #5 from Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> 2012-04-22 00:09:04 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > In the past, all accounts were local. Users who still have local accounts can > go to the page "Special:MergeAccount" at any WMF project whilst logged in to > create an SUL account. Some users have not gone to "Special:MergeAccount" > (possibly because SUL is unknown to these users). The proposal is to > automatically do the "Special:MergeAccount" joining for the remaining users > (as > long as there are no conflicts). You cannot really merge accounts automatically, since you do not know whether all those users are the same users in different projects. The reason why we ask for password on Special:MergeAccount is that otherwise we cannot even check if two password hashes are the same, since they are hashed and salted (and each has a different salt). It is true that you could look for alternative criteria of equivalence like all accounts having the same confirmed email address, or check the password and do an auto-merge on login, or merge all single-wiki accounts, but I personally do not believe that the benefits of such a feature (which are not apparent to me) would outweigh its costs of implementation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
