(1) Confusing user registration in wiki

[Thomas von der Elbe]

How about:

C. Single sign-on for the pollwiki and just Votorola? Average users of 
the other poll-servers will usually not come to the pollwiki anyway. 
Only those powerusers who want to match poll-identifiers. Ofc in the 
future A. would be best to make free range voting as conveniant as 
possible but just for now ... How long would this take to code?


Michael Allan schrieb:
> So everyone agrees this is problem #1:
> http://u.zelea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup
> Two solutions are:
>
>  A. Getting rid of the Username field, because it's redundant with the
>     E-mail field.  (Thomas proposed this).  I could do it as a proper
>     MediaWiki extension, so other pollwiki admins can easily duplicate
>     our setup.
>
>     (a week, low risk)
>
>  B. Single sign-on for the pollwiki and all pollservers (etc) that
>     service it, in the local cluster.
>
>     (several weeks, somewhat risky)
>
> B is maybe the ideal solution, but harder to code.  I want to defer B,
> because we don't need the convenience of single sign yet.  We don't
> need a lot of casual users, at this stage, only the hardcore type.
> And the perpetual sign-on thing ("keep me logged in") is good enough
> for them.  So I vote for A, as a stopgap.
>
> Are there other proposals or ideas?  (While we're discussing that, I
> can work on a design proposal for problem #2.  It's more complicated.)
>
>