2009/4/27 MinuteElectron <minuteelect...@googlemail.com>: > 2009/4/27 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: >> It's too late. You need to make that kind of decision when you first >> start. Dealing with conflicts when we went over to global accounts >> within Wikimedia was hard enough, dealing with them if we went over to >> accepting OpenIDs would be a nightmare. > > I think OpenIDs would (should?) be tied to accounts, not used as usernames.
At the moment accounts and usernames are in a very fundamental 1:1 correspondence. It would be quite a major change to do away with that. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l