Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-18 Thread Nicolas Brouard
Le 16 févr. 2012 à 22:26, Platonides a écrit : > On 16/02/12 09:51, Nicolas Brouard INED wrote: >> Thanks to Platonides for his comment and also to Olivier (the author of the >> Realnames extension) who told me to forward the following patch to >> wikitech-l (which I just subscribed to) for adv

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-17 Thread Nicolas Brouard
Le 16 févr. 2012 à 17:45, Bergi a écrit : > Nicolas Brouard INED schrieb: >> Then, just try to enter your e-mail on a standard wiki in place of your >> username and you will be authenticated to the first ID (and user_name) >> having your e-mail. > > Great Idea! Thank you. Now we have to convi

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-17 Thread Bergi
Bináris schrieb: An alternative solution to the original problem could be an extension that displays possible characters from several alphabets and helps to generate the username with mouse and put it back to the login name/password field. I don't think that would be a good idea. * It sounds as

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-17 Thread Nicolas Brouard
Le 16 févr. 2012 à 20:51, Bináris a écrit : > 2012/2/16 Nicolas Brouard INED > >> For people having multiple usernames (pseudos) with the same e-mail but >> different passwords for each, a better patch could be to test the password >> entered and to link with the unique username. But I am not a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-16 Thread Bináris
An alternative solution to the original problem could be an extension that displays possible characters from several alphabets and helps to generate the username with mouse and put it back to the login name/password field. It would appear as a link or button next to the login name field. No securi

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-16 Thread Platonides
On 16/02/12 09:51, Nicolas Brouard INED wrote: > Thanks to Platonides for his comment and also to Olivier (the author of the > Realnames extension) who told me to forward the following patch to wikitech-l > (which I just subscribed to) for advices, comments and critics. > > I was just wondering

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-16 Thread Bináris
2012/2/16 Nicolas Brouard INED > For people having multiple usernames (pseudos) with the same e-mail but > different passwords for each, a better patch could be to test the password > entered and to link with the unique username. But I am not an expert in > mediawiki and php and don't know how to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-16 Thread Bergi
Nicolas Brouard INED schrieb: Then, just try to enter your e-mail on a standard wiki in place of your username and you will be authenticated to the first ID (and user_name) having your e-mail. Great Idea! If someone could test this patch above and report the security issues as well as perf

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-16 Thread Nicolas Brouard INED
Thanks to Platonides for his comment and also to Olivier (the author of the Realnames extension) who told me to forward the following patch to wikitech-l (which I just subscribed to) for advices, comments and critics. I was just wondering if this small patch in User.php (function idFromName) was