> Another alternative is to explicitly support multiple usernames under an > umbrella backend account... (Anybody remember AOL screen names? BLAST FROM > THE PAST)
Making umbrella backend account could be one of the answers. But implementation of umbrella backend account requires massive user/authentication code updates, table schema changes and massive auto account merges(which accounts have same emails) than other ways. Anyway I think umbrella idea is the most nice one. 2015-02-21 3:51 GMT+09:00 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
