[Foundation-l] Single login, et al

Mon Jul 11 23:06:48 UTC 2005

** OFFTOPIC **
Since this is a little off-topic I don't want to post it one the discussion.
With this new single login system, will be there new changes on the 
characters allowed on a username ? Like accepting underscores (_) on the 
username ?

That may be the chance for me to change my nick from Get It to Get_It

Cheers,

On 7/11/05, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There have been some great efforts to discuss and specify what a
> single-login implementatoin will look like in recent months. However,
> the major disagreements form the last bout of specifications -- how to
> deal with name conflicts -- have not yet been addressed.
> 
> See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Single_login_specifications
> and the article page itself for some of the current discussion.
> 
> The current proposal suggests that "the user under a given name with
> the highest edit-count" will "Win" that name, and all other users with
> that name will have a fixed period of time to find a new username.
> The idea of arbitrarily forcing one user to change names seems bad and
> anti-consensus to me -- if two active users have the same name, I
> think they should work out something among themselves -- or be allowed
> to forego the privileges of unified login. And the idea of using edit
> counts to determine "winners" is particularly unappealing to me (how
> about seniority? usefulness of edits? current activity?).
> 
> Please check out the current specification and comment. There will be
> a lot of detailed discussion about this implementatoin at Wikimania in
> August.
> 
> --
> ++SJ
> 

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