https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35707
--- Comment #6 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> 2012-04-22 05:42:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > (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. This bug isn't suggesting that we automatically merge User:A on en.wp and User:A on de.wp automatically. It's suggesting that we automatically make User:A global if there is no User:A on de.wp, etc... Just like we do with new user creation. -- 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
