[Foundation-l] (easy) SUL questions

Mon Jun 2 17:54:08 UTC 2008

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:44 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> 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?
>
>
> When you merge your account, the name is reserved across all Wikimedia
projects (no one except the Global account holder could register that name
on any wiki). The merge operation itself is still opt-in (the account is not
merged upon signup yet), meaning you have to merge it before the username
gets reserved. *1

1 = Brion

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--alnokta