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Subject:    Re: [Pywikipedia-l] account_global = False
From:       Andre Engels <andreengels () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-01-02 18:21:49
Message-ID: CAGzCZ0pzR_nLc+TN+w1dmyJi+F2zE=Oukny_Q+AaVO+QBAtzxg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Nickanc Wikipedia
<nickanc.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw that inside config.py there are these lines:
>
> # This is currently not used anywhere:
> account_global = False
>
> I don't know what this means technically, but by its name one may
> guess it means "not to login globally". But, since almost every
> account is global, why don't allow global login with the bot?
> Many users works on more than one wiki, for example, I work on both
> it.wiki and it.wikt, but there are also global bots who work on a big
> number of wikis. Therefore a global login would be convenient, no?

In my opinion, the "This is currently not used anywhere" means that we
should just remove this option, rather than discuss what its default
value should be - or even what it means.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels@gmail.com

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