Tony Thomas wrote: >Before someone starts with a proposal for the proposed-tech-project 'Allow >user login with e-mail address'[1], is there still community consensus for >the same ? I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail >address is easy to remember than a complex username. [...] > >[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30085
Hi. Yes, I believe there's consensus to implement this feature. It's incredibly common practice on the Web to allow login via e-mail address. MediaWiki fortunately already supports storing and authenticating e-mail addresses, so the work to allow login via e-mail address hopefully shouldn't be too difficult. The tricky parts are that e-mail addresses are considered private information and there's no requirement that e-mail addresses be unique in the user table. As you mention, there are many instances of multiple users using the same e-mail address. As part of a first iteration, we'd likely simply disallow login via e-mail address for the ambiguous cases. In a second or third iteration, we'd ideally have an intermediate post-login screen that allows the user to select an account to use. This account selector may also one day tie in with the idea of having an account switcher (i.e., the ability to easily switch between multiple accounts without needing to log out and re-authenticate). However, these are tangential features that quickly start to get a lot more complicated when you consider single user login and its cross-domain magic, login sessions, cookies, etc. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
