[Foundation-l] To make it easy to fork and leave

Mon Aug 15 19:09:14 UTC 2011

Oh...well. Diversity is also a problem to think about when whe are making an
encyclopedia. But any way... Let's think in how to split everything why not?
its easy! This is just a game, isn' it?

2011/8/15 Gustavo Carrancio <gustavocarra en gmail.com>

> Yes, leave and forking is our main problem. Sure. I think that to make easy
> to fork will be something like to show the exit way to some people.... well,
> let me think one minute....Yes! excelent!
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> 2011/8/15 Tom Morris <tom en tommorris.org>
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>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 18:00, WereSpielChequers
>> <werespielchequers en gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If we are serious about having a right to fork we need to make it easy
>> for
>> > editors to keep their account, and possibly even userrights in both
>> forks,
>> > otherwise whichever fork you have to create a new account for is at a
>> huge
>> > disadvantage. But for privacy/security reasons I don't think that WMF
>> should
>> > give the fork a copy of the databases that includes the userids and
>> their
>> > logins. Perhaps this could be finessed by having the WMF create a bridge
>> to
>> > allow wikimedians to activate their existing account at the forked wiki,
>> and
>> > the forked wiki would presumably not allow editors to otherwise create
>> > accounts using names that had edits imported from Wikimedia.
>> >
>>
>> Simple: make it so you can use Wikimedia logins as OpenIDs (or even
>> just as OpenID delegates, so you can point your Wikimedia profile to
>> an existing OpenID provider).
>>
>> --
>> Tom Morris
>> <http://tommorris.org/>
>>
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