Risker wrote: > As far as I know, since always, Casey. One must log in separately there; > going from another WMF project, one's login doesn't follow. One of the main > reasons for the creation of SUL was so users could go from WMF project to > project without having to log in again; partly for ease of use, but also > because there are an awful lot of editors who don't want to link their > usernames to their IP addresses, even accidentally. Especially now that most > experienced users take SUL for granted, it's a barrier to participation when > a link to a WMF project seeking broad participation requires editors to log > in again, and hope that someone else hasn't created an account with their > username first.
You're both right. In a literal sense, strategy.wikimedia.org doesn't work with unified login. That is, when you log in through en.wikipedia.org or elsewhere, you won't be logged in to every place where you have a Wikimedia account of the same name. (Though I think if you log in through strategy.wikimedia.org, you get the cookies for that site and the other sites, but you still wouldn't get the cookies for other *.wikimedia.org wikis.) A lot of people say "unified login" to mean you don't need to re-register your account and that your account will be linked to a global account of the same name, not that it will be automatically logged in, however. That was Casey's confusion. This particular issue is the subject of bug 14407.[1] Whether it's a real barrier to entry, I don't know. The people involved in content work really don't need to be sucked into the kind of place that strategy.wikimedia.org is, in my opinion. :-) MZMcBride [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14407 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
