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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
