https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161
--- Comment #16 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2009-10-16 11:48:09 UTC --- First of all, I did not speak about a real bot, but about a bot-LIKE feature, but still involving a delayed update, where the various wikis would enforce the applied update each time they encounter a reference to a local user account, before assuming that the locally stored preferences can be safely used. > Well, if you wanted preferences to be applied across wikis, automatic account > creation would be required. Absolutely NOT ! When I refer to preferences to be applied across wikis, it just has to apply to existing accounts, whever they were created automatically or not, the only condition being that these already existing wiki accounts are effectively unified with the SUL account. > Or alternatively, common storage, instead of storing the same thing a million > times. It is already stored a "million" times : each wikis already stores these preferences locally, as well as the existing SUL server for these global preferences. But using a single storage ONLY in SUL, but not locally would impact users : they won't be able to have local preferences, when they want to keep them. For example, users may still want to have different email options for specific wikis (such as forwarding or not the messages posted in their discussion page), even if they use the same validated email address on all of them: one good reason for that is that some wikis are handled by teams of local administrators that a user can trust on some wikis, but absolutely not on all wikis. The other reason being that users are multilingual and will still want, for example, to work on an English Wiki with the English language and localisation parameters, and on a French Wiki with the French language. They will however not want to work on Arabic wikis with the Arabic language, and will want to apply a default language for all languages that they don't want to see in the user interface (and notably not in the user's preferences panel). If you just share a common table, it will no longer be possible to work on wikis with distinct languages when they want, and they will have to accept forwarded emails from ALL wikis, or from NONE of them. -- 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
