Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:41 UTC
Allowing multiple wiki accounts for a single email address seems like something some wiki admins may not want to allow. Can we make this configurable somehow? Original q regarding this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Allowing_creating_two_users_with_the_same_email_address
Quite simply, people are allowed to have multiple accounts, and since we don't use email as a primary key there's no strong reason to forbid using the same email as long as you can validate it. This does have the downside that we can't easily allow 'login' or 'password reset' to accept the email instead of / in addition to the username. Using an email seems much more fashionable these days than picking your own username and logging in with it. A switch could possibly be made to prevent new such signups. If this is something we would want on Wikimedia sites we'd probably need to consider a migration path before doing anything more.
MediaWiki actually already allows resetting passwords if you only know your email (it's relatively new). It just resets all of them. Login by email would indeed be too confusing due to multiple accounts per email.
(In reply to comment #2) > Login by email would indeed be too confusing due to multiple accounts per > email. Login via email is bug 28085.
