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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Single-sign-on
From:       Jimmy Wales <jwales () bomis ! com>
Date:       2003-12-31 14:32:34
Message-ID: 20031231143234.GF8450 () joey ! bomis ! com
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I think we should do this ASAP, because the issues are only going
to get harder.  But the main issue, Timwi, is social -- there are
certainly cases where two different people have the same username
but in different languages.

Timwi wrote:

> 
> Thomas R. Koll wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:04:00PM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
> >
> >>Stuff like single sign on
> >
> >That is not possible anymore. It would be total chaos.
> 
> I'm pretty confused at this assessment of yours.
> 
> All it would take to achieve this would be to:
> 
> - Add a field to the 'cur' and 'old' tables (or perhaps even just the 
> 'cur' table) to specify what language an article is in.
> - Move all the articles from all languages into one database.
> - Adapt code accordingly.
> 
> Should be doable (given adequate manpower).
> 
> Timwi
> 
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