https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161
--- Comment #10 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2009-06-23 00:36:30 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #7) > > Auto account creation is a side effect of MediaWiki requiring a local user > > ID. > > However there's no particular need to be logging them publicly. > > It isn't really necessary if the user is only reading pages. It is if you need to: 1) determine permissions 2) allow for watchlist 3) allow for editing or anything else that's about to happen In theory it could be possible to rig up a ghost-user system which gives us the permissions we would have, if we'd been registered locally, without actually doing so, until the time comes that a write has to be made, but that could be an awful lot of trouble. Alternately magic super-large (or negative!? ;) user id numbers could be used for remote accounts. Oooooh that could be wacky... :D -- 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
