[Foundation-l] (easy) SUL questions

Sun Jun 1 20:01:59 UTC 2008

phoebe ayers wrote:
> 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?
> 

I think that is the eventual plan, if and when we actually get to the
point where everything else is sorted out.

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Alex (w:en:User:Mr.Z-man)