You can think about relying upon WMF OAuth to login to wikijournal. Basically anyone would be able to login to wikijournal using their WMF wikis' credentials. If you make this the sole way to login you'll end up having an already-ready-to-merge userbase.
Vito 2017-03-15 20:44 GMT+01:00 Felipe Schenone <scheno...@gmail.com>: > Awesome advice Brad, I can't think of a better solution than that, thanks! > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:26 PM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < > bjor...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Felipe Schenone <scheno...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > If we migrate the content we currently have (on Meta and > > > Wikiversity) to wikijournal.org, and the project grows, and eventually > > > gets > > > accepted as a sister-project (as we hope), how will we merge the user > > > accounts? Should we not worry about it, and we'll figure it out when > the > > > time comes? Or should we totally worry about it, and adopt some > strategy > > > about it now? What's your advice on this issue? > > > > > > Note: This post is my personal view and in no way represents any official > > WMF position. > > > > My personal guess is that it would wind up being done something like how > > accounts on WikiVoyage were handled: people who used the same username on > > both WikiVoyage and Wikimedia wikis were able to merge those accounts, > > people whose usernames weren't already in use on Wikimedia wikis were > able > > to claim those names, and other people had to be renamed. Or at least it > > seems that's what was done based on the plan document on mediawiki.org > [1] > > and the process page on en.wikivoyage.org.[2] > > > > To reduce the number of people who would need renaming should the time > > come, you might start using an extension like OAuthAuthentication[3] to > > authenticate against Meta, and disable any further local account > creations. > > > > [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikivoyage_migration/Accounts > > [2]: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:User_account_migration > > [3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuthAuthentication > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
