Another alternative is to explicitly support multiple usernames under an umbrella backend account... (Anybody remember AOL screen names? BLAST FROM THE PAST)
I don't know whether that's something to encourage, but it would simplify those cases. -- brion On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/02/15 17:28, Brion Vibber wrote: > >> IMO we should strongly discourage use of multiple accounts with the same >> email to the point of forbidding it in software for new accounts.[1] >> >> Figuring out how to migrate those old accounts is something that needs to >> be considered and worked out, but it shouldn't hold up work on making the >> login/reset form accept email addresses for the common case. >> >> >> [1] I personally have a bunch of test accounts that probably have the same >> email, and I'm sure some folks have bots and other things set up >> similarly. >> Note that many email providers including Gmail allow email aliases with >> "+" >> and something else after your mailbox name, such as 'johndoe+testing99 at >> wikimedia.org'; I've used this in the past to have separate accounts on >> one >> email for Apple and other providers as well. >> >> -- brion >> > > Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry# > Legitimate_uses for a non-comprehensive list of use cases for alternate > accounts. Requiring separate emails, or expecting users to know that > particular trick, would be problematic for many of these, and may even > encourage some users to not use an email address at all. > > -I > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
