Bináris wrote: >2015-02-19 13:54 GMT+01:00 Tony Thomas <01tonytho...@gmail.com>: >>I personally think its a must-have for MediaWiki, as e-mail >> address is easy to remember than a complex username. > >I think everybody has the chance to choose as simple username as they can >remember. It's not nuclear physics or cerebral surgery. >Where am I wrong?
It's not a matter of choosing a single, simple user name, per se, it's choosing a user name on Wikimedia wikis, on Twitter, on Facebook, on Gmail, on GitHub, and on a million other sites on the Web. Yes, users should choose memorable user names and secure passwords on each site and never forget them, but that isn't the world we live in. We dramatically reduce our barrier to entry by allowing login via e-mail address as users can typically remember their own e-mail address. Do you disagree? MediaWiki not only currently disallows login via e-mail address, login is case-sensitive (e.g., "MZ" and "Mz" can be different users). In your experience, is MediaWiki's current authentication architecture following common or best practices? I personally think there's a lot of work needed. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
