https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161
--- Comment #37 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2011-03-23 22:03:21 UTC --- > It'll cost the editor two clicks to create an account, I think that's acceptable. > It should be pretty easy to implement. The same would be true with my proposal. Only usernames, not user accounts, really need to be rejected locally, even if there may be a system for global admins and selected local admins to monitor those accounts where they occur. Yes there's an IRC channel to allow all those admins to cooperate, possibly taking common decisions, to reject the account name everywhere it was already used. But there's no real need to block the account completely if, by accident only, it is found abusive only on a specific wiki. My proposal can be implemented separately anyway and will NOT need more clicks for most users (the second click to ask for the local account name creation when editing/posting for the first time on that wiki would still be used with your solution), but the user would not even have to assign a user name on that specific wiki : he could just use the default "userid:xxxx" autogenerated there, and post there without being publicly logged by his private (possibly temporary) IP. This woudl also allow even those users to have their identity kept for licencing purpose (the local account woudl still be created even if it's just an anonymous "Userid:xxxx" without a local preferred user name). My proposal would also fulfil the demand, notably by users in Asia or speaking a non-Latin-written language, to use a prefered Latin transliteration of their name in their home wiki (for example, many Chinese/Japanese/Arabic writers like to use their native name in their home wiki speaking their home language, but like to have their name correctly read/deciphered/understood in other wikis (notably on Commons and large Latin-written wikis). This is even part of their official national identity, and present on their passport (if they want to use these aliases for foreign countries): just allow distinct usernames on distinct wikis; stability and privacy is kept with the anonymous numeric user id specific to each local wiki. -- 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
