https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34590
--- Comment #32 from Nicolas Brouard <nicolas.brou...@libertysurf.fr> --- The Universal Language Selector project looks promising... It is beyond our current need which can be summarized as followed: - be allowed to login with an e-mail (and password); - be logged with a username which can contain any professional name, either an English transliterated name or a 'natively written' name using unicoded characters and not only ASCII or iso-8859-x characters. We are using this patch since a few months now with great success: - some users prefer to be logged and signed with a Korean, Nepali or Thai or Russian etc. name; - some others prefer to keep their English transliterated name, it depends. But ALL prefer to login with an e-mail than with a username (they are forgetting very rapidly the exact spelling when they want to sign with a complete professional name). Sometimes you don't have access to your own keyboard (and are reluctant to follow the various menus choosing the right language and input method) and only need to login (by entering your email) and participate to an English discussion for example (but sign with your Korean or whatever scripted username). This very simple patch concerns multilingual sites which are not concerned by revealing the identity of their users. With this patch you can't discover 'visually' the link between a username and its e-mail address but you could build robots which would reveal them. Thus, it is not appropriate for Wikipedia sites (or needs further developments) but very appropriate for corporate MediaWiki sites. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
