Last modified: 2009-07-27 02:03:10 UTC
Users can connect their accounts on multiple wikis via SUL (CentralAuth). A Wikimedian may well be active on dozens of projects; while SUL automatically manages their account authentication and automated logins on a common basis, all other settings are local and each field must be re-entered or changes on every one of those dozens of projects when something changes. This request is that now SUL is well established, it is enhanced to be a genuine central account manager for the merged/SUL-ed accounts too. That is, instead of [[Special:MergeAccount]], there is [[Special:Central Account Management]] or the like. This would have 3 tabs: Tab #1 -- to view merged accounts and active projects, and demerge selected accounts or add new merged accounts. Tab #2 -- a central preferences tab, which would be the same as the usual [[Special:Preferences]] but on each page buttons "set this as the default for new accounts" and "export changed setting to all merged accounts". Tab #3 -- for account email addresses, since reconfirming emails on each of many projects is painful. Instead it would list email addresses confirmed by the merged accounts, and allow add (and confirm), and removal of addresses, from this list. Any confirmed email address on that list would automatically be deemed a valid confirmed email address for any merged account, and any email on that list could be used in the central preferences dialog to set a default email or to change all merged accounts to a specific (confirmed) email. Explanation: Most users would probably only use one email address, and this lets them set and change it centrally. But a user who wishes to use multiple email addresses, e.g. one email for all EN projects and another for all DE projects, or one for all wikipedias and one for all wikinews (ie a user may have 2 "known" addresses using one in some places and the other in others) is also accomodated.
(In reply to comment #0) > Tab #2 -- a central preferences tab, which would be the same as the usual > [[Special:Preferences]] but on each page buttons "set this as the default for > new accounts" and "export changed setting to all merged accounts". See bug 14950. > Tab #3 -- for account email addresses, since reconfirming emails on each of > many projects is painful. As far as I know, this doesn't describe the software as it is now - you need only confirm your email once. Leaving the bug open to double-check that.
(In reply to comment #1) > As far as I know, this doesn't describe the software as it is now - you need > only confirm your email once. Leaving the bug open to double-check that. Confirmed that -> INVALID Note I've reopened but 14950 for the other part of this request.
