[Foundation-l] (easy) SUL questions

Sun Jun 1 17:44:03 UTC 2008

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:17 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 3) After SUL is fully deployed, when users create a new account (on,
>>> say, the english wikipedia) will that name automatically be 'reserved'
>>> for use on all Wikimedia wikis? [if so, when will this happen?]
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that the answers for 3 are "yes" and "now"
>>
> Hmm, really? I thought your name was only reserved if you use
> mergeaccount. Lemme check.
>
> 1) Created account "ownersdraw" on en.wikipedia.
> 2) Logout
> 3) Created account "ownersdraw" on de.wikipedia (using a different
> password, just in case)
>
> Worked, so no, it's not set up that way yet.
>
> Anthony

Does anyone know if the plan for the future (after existing accounts
are sorted out) is to have names be reserved when you register them
anywhere, though?

Thanks all for your help
-- phoebe