I had a related question: Is there any way to actually verify the logins of
Wikimedia users w/o username/password?

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks good. Although I'd rename the "member of Group:Bob" to "belongs to
> User:Bob", so you would have:
> User:Bob
> User:BobBot - belongs to User:Bob
> User:Bob (testing) - belongs to User:Bob
> User:Bob (vector skin) - belongs to User:Bob
>
>
> Although this opens the can of accounts with different names on several
> wikis.
> User:BobBot may belong to User:Bob everywhere but in wikis Foo, Bar and
> Baz, where Bob username was taken and he is known as 'Bob2'.
> Showing that "BobBot is of Bob" may be a bit confusing as in that wiki
> Bob is a different guy (even if coherent due to usage of sul usernames).
>
> It's not a problem to have sul Bob2 as belonging to Bob, but the local
> Bob may belong to global "Bob Smith". And if we start user groups, the
> Bob Smiths out there will ask for them to be recognised.
> Maybe there could be local accounts attached to user groups separatedly
> from sul ones.
>
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