Enable SUL account support and permit editing on talk pages, user pages, and translations.
Migration plan
- Restrict editing on GovWiki to editors as previously discussed (needed, as the next step will let random people in)
- Enable CentralAuth extension, allowing local account holders to log in (this is disabled on normal wikis, but we want it enabled at GovWiki for some short transitional/migration period)
- Inform all enabled account holders CentralAuth is available. Offer them the possibility to manually merge their account via Special:MergeAccount if they want to, making it clear it will be eventually done by us (well, me). This is not a strictly required step, however, I personally prefer having control over when migration for my account happens, so I thought it's good to give notice and a possibility for self-service if someone wants to.
- Wait 7 days
- Merge all existing accounts to (some) global account. Since that process is hard to explain using text-only, there's a diagram for it. Green blocks in the diagram are actions I can do myself, actions that need to be assisted by someone else are in orange.
- Ensure there are no left unmigrated accounts.
- Disable logging in via local account credentials (this is to make GovWiki's behavior same as behavior of all other SUL wikis; local credentials were temporarily kept enabled for transitional purposes as part of step 2).
Migration progress for accounts
Staff
- foundationwiki removed, SUL does not exist
- foundationwiki removed, SUL unlocked (NEEDS ITS)
- Contact ITS to check account holder status
- Process accounts as directed by ITS
- foundationwiki removed, SUL locked
- foundationwiki enabled, SUL not found
- foundationwiki enabled, SUL locked (NEEDS ITS)
- Contact ITS to check account holder status
- Process accounts as directed by ITS
- foundationwiki enabled, SUL unlocked
- Send notification that SUL is available
- Wait 7 days (until November 4, 2021)
- Merge remaining accounts
Volunteers
- foundationwiki removed, SUL not found
- Create (unlocked) SUL
- Consider lifting local block
- foundationwiki removed, SUL exists
- Merge
- Consider lifting local block
- foundationwiki enabled, SUL not found
- foundationwiki enabled, SUL found
- Send notification that SUL is available
- Wait 7 days
- Merge remaining accounts