(1) Confusing user registration in wiki

[Michael Allan]

This is now ready (solution A).  To try it out, first log yourself
out, then log back in:  http://u.zelea.com/w

If you see any bugs, please let me know.

>> 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)

Help pages have yet to be updated.  User registration will no longer
require any documentation.  (In fact, it's easier than vanilla
MediaWiki.  There's one less field to enter:
http://u.zelea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup

Users who registered without proper "mailish" names can no longer log
in to their accounts: http://u.zelea.com/w/Special:ListUsers

If anyone is curious, the code is here:
http://u.zelea.com/system/host/u/var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki-c/extensions/MailishUsername

Thanks to Thomas for suggesting this solution,
-- 
Michael Allan

Toronto, +1 647-436-4521
http://zelea.com/


>>  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.