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Re: [Commons-l] CommonsDelinker

Marco Schuster

18 Nov 2006 18 Nov '06

10:38 p.m.

Hello. Good news: the bot is working. Bad news: It seems as if I need to have a flagged account on all wikis according to bot rules :-(. So this will take some time to create accs on all 660 wikis :-p (and even more to let them get flagged -.-) Regards, Marco

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Florian Straub

18 Nov 18 Nov

11:05 p.m.

"Marco Schuster" <CDL-Klever(a)gmx.net> wrote:

Bad news: It seems as if I need to have a flagged account on all wikis according to bot rules :-(. So this will take some time to create accs on all 660 wikis :-p (and even more to let them get flagged -.-)

Maybe you can give the bot to some users with a webserver on their dial-in PCs, so they can use anonymous accounts ... Regards, Flo

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Oldak Quill

11:30 p.m.

On 18/11/06, Marco Schuster <CDL-Klever(a)gmx.net> wrote:

Hello. Good news: the bot is working. Bad news: It seems as if I need to have a flagged account on all wikis according to bot rules :-(. So this will take some time to create accs on all 660 wikis :-p (and even more to let them get flagged -.-) Regards, Marco

If you create a list of the wikis on which you need to create accounts, you could get some admins to help you. The admin signs up; you e-mail them your desired username, password and e-mail; and the admin removes the wiki from your list. All you'd need to do is confirm the e-mail address by clicking a link. Would this be breaking any Foundation rules? -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)

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Gizmo II

11:32 p.m.

What about starting to make some noise to the foundation about the "unique account" they have been talking about since february? -- Gizmo

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Bence Damokos

11:37 p.m.

Can't you just take over the already created User:CommonsDelinker accounts? Or just say, that for this to work each wiki has to create an account for you, and send you the password (as agreeing on a password publicly would not be safe). Dami On 11/19/06, Gizmo II <nahuel.gizmo(a)gmail.com> wrote:

What about starting to make some noise to the foundation about the "unique account" they have been talking about since february? -- Gizmo _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Oldak Quill

11:39 p.m.

On 18/11/06, Gizmo II <nahuel.gizmo(a)gmail.com> wrote:

What about starting to make some noise to the foundation about the "unique account" they have been talking about since february?

Well, or noise to the developers since we're more a bottom-up organisation. Perhaps we should incentivise the implementation of single-login by building up a fund to go to the developers or the Foundation on completion? How would we organise such a fund? How would it be divided? -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)

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geni

11:41 p.m.

On 11/18/06, Gizmo II <nahuel.gizmo(a)gmail.com> wrote:

What about starting to make some noise to the foundation about the "unique account" they have been talking about since february?

While the devs do wounderful things it is generaly best to find a solution that doesn't require their involvement. -- geni

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Alphax (Wikipedia email)

19 Nov 19 Nov

1:45 a.m.

Marco Schuster wrote:

Hello. Good news: the bot is working.

Great! How do we use it? Or does it run automatically?

Bad news: It seems as if I need to have a flagged account on all wikis according to bot rules :-(.

What about the discussions we had on Meta? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions/CommonsDelinker -- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP

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Brianna Laugher

4:24 a.m.

Single user login (SUL) is in the works... no really... and us making more or less noise at this stage will not be helpful. All we can do is sit tight and wait. YA RLY. Brianna On 19/11/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 18/11/06, Gizmo II <nahuel.gizmo(a)gmail.com> wrote:

What about starting to make some noise to the foundation about the "unique account" they have been talking about since february?

Well, or noise to the developers since we're more a bottom-up organisation. Perhaps we should incentivise the implementation of single-login by building up a fund to go to the developers or the Foundation on completion? How would we organise such a fund? How would it be divided? -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com) _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Marco Schuster

10:44 a.m.

Alphax (Wikipedia email) schrieb:

Marco Schuster wrote:

Hello. Good news: the bot is working.

Great! How do we use it? Or does it run automatically?

The software requires authorization (if I would run it for everyone I am sure vandals would abuse it). So, if you want to use it, emial me.

Bad news: It seems as if I need to have a flagged account on all wikis according to bot rules :-(.

What about the discussions we had on Meta? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions/CommonsDelinker

Tons of supporters, but no one made a decision. It would be time for doing one. Regards, Marco

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Alphax (Wikipedia email)
Bence Damokos
Brianna Laugher
Florian Straub
geni
Gizmo II
Marco Schuster
Oldak Quill