https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19951
Summary: Allow Central user account management (prefs) via
CentralAuth
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: CentralAuth
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: ft2.w...@gmail.com
Users can connect their accounts on multiple wikis via SUL (CentralAuth). A
Wikimedian may well be active on dozens of projects; while SUL automatically
manages their account authentication and automated logins on a common basis,
all other settings are local and each field must be re-entered or changes on
every one of those dozens of projects when something changes.
This request is that now SUL is well established, it is enhanced to be a
genuine central account manager for the merged/SUL-ed accounts too. That is,
instead of [[Special:MergeAccount]], there is [[Special:Central Account
Management]] or the like.
This would have 3 tabs:
Tab #1 -- to view merged accounts and active projects, and demerge selected
accounts or add new merged accounts.
Tab #2 -- a central preferences tab, which would be the same as the usual
[[Special:Preferences]] but on each page buttons "set this as the default for
new accounts" and "export changed setting to all merged accounts".
Tab #3 -- for account email addresses, since reconfirming emails on each of
many projects is painful. Instead it would list email addresses confirmed by
the merged accounts, and allow add (and confirm), and removal of addresses,
from this list. Any confirmed email address on that list would automatically be
deemed a valid confirmed email address for any merged account, and any email on
that list could be used in the central preferences dialog to set a default
email or to change all merged accounts to a specific (confirmed) email.
Explanation: Most users would probably only use one email address, and this
lets them set and change it centrally. But a user who wishes to use multiple
email addresses, e.g. one email for all EN projects and another for all DE
projects, or one for all wikipedias and one for all wikinews (ie a user may
have 2 "known" addresses using one in some places and the other in others) is
also accomodated.
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