That looks about right. (how it happened) Cheers, Peter -----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Felipe Schenone Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2017 9:44 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiJournal project
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> ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.8007 / Virus Database: 4756/14120 - Release Date: 03/15/17 _______________________________________________ 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>
