Brion Vibber wrote: > It seems that someone's added a checkbox "Log me in globally" on > CentralAuth's modified Special:Userlogin. This is kind of not great in that > it clogs up the user interface with something that should always 100% of the > time be on, and should never be optional. > > The feature request: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20852 > > The commit: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/75041 > > If there's no strong objection, I'd like to revert it. If there really is > some very specific need for non-global logins (wtf?!) this should be > something that individual people who really need it can *get to* with their > secret wizard knowledge but not inflict on everyone else. ;)
I actually like the feature, personally, but I agree that it's UI clutter. What annoys me about global login is that it adds a noticeable delay to logging in, twice, with generally very little benefit to the user. You have to wait for the little images to load, then you have to click to go back to whatever it is you were working on, and for most people, they logged in to a specific project because they wanted to edit that specific project. They have no intention (or even care about) editing Wikiversity or Wikisource or whatever else they're now logged in to. If there's a way to improve the general login workflow (AJAX, CORS, whatever), I'd like to see that implemented before this checkbox is ripped out. I'm not sure, even with dark wizard magic, how you'd easily disable global login. I suppose a Greasemonkey script might be able to auto-redirect you on login or something, but that's a nasty Mozilla dependency that only works per-computer. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
