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- Nov 27 2014, 3:32 AM (461 w, 5 d)
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- Niharika
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- Niharika29
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- NKohli (WMF) [ Global Accounts ]
Tue, Sep 26
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Tue, Sep 19
Would it be preferable to build this special page into its own extension or tap into an existing extension like CentralAuth?
Mon, Sep 18
All subtasks resolved. Closing Epic. ✅
Fri, Sep 15
Follow-up work in T345855: Update temporary username format . Thanks everyone for the lively discussion!
Thu, Sep 14
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Wed, Sep 6
Thanks for filing the task @Whatamidoing-WMF and for updating TitleBlacklist, @AntiCompositeNumber.
Tue, Sep 5
Aug 30 2023
@tstarling as the one who made this change would you be able to elaborate why you preferred the scramble method over the serial? Is there a benefit to using that?
I've created two other tasks to discuss the order of the temporary accounts (scramble/serial) and whether we need a prefix and if so what here:
Aug 29 2023
Noting on this task that the related discussion is happening on T331058: Make Special:Mute only usable for named users
Aug 28 2023
I think our team can take this on @Ladsgroup. Thanks for the offer though!
I agree with @Tchanders - including temp users in this dropdown does not make any value addition for the end user since temporary accounts cannot be added to groups. Once a user starts typing "* Unr....." they will immediate know that temp users are not a valid entry if we don't autocomplete, thus saving them the bother of finding the right user and trying to assign them rights.
But I'm wondering if it's a temporary problem to do with the DB migration, or whether it's likely to persist.
@Tchanders is there someone we can ping to ask about this? If it's a temporary problem then we may not need to do anything here?
Aug 25 2023
Aug 24 2023
I'm fine with the current choice. We can re-evaluate once this is out to understand what the community deems useful information. Thanks for working on this task.
@RHo it's pending a technical investigation and will require whoever works on CentralAuth to confirm and implement this behavior. It will be captured on the officewiki page once it's confirmed we can do this. Thanks. :)
Aug 23 2023
Aug 19 2023
Thanks for the presentation! For others who may be looking for a link, the tool is alive here: https://tool-watch.toolforge.org/
Aug 10 2023
Aug 4 2023
We asked an open question for the community on the IP Masking project page and we received feedback from about 10 people. Here's my summary of the feedback we received:
- 2 people said that they feel "~" is a good representation of the temporary nature of temp accounts and we should use that as a prefix. Some others used it in their examples which may indicate they are fine with this.
- 2 people said that "~" prefix could cause confusion because of SUL using them too
- Concern against ! was that it is typically used to indicate "not"
- Concern against '?' was that it is used in other ways that could be confusing
- It is hard to distinguish between an mash, dash, hyphen and minus sign
- Some people said that they are concerned about how long the usernames will get. There is support for using the year as a prefix, not just to shorten usernames but also to add a data point about the user.
- Several people supported the idea of breaking down temp usernames for easy readability such as ~2023~4024~1239
- Several people voiced enthusiasm for having year as prefix - both for identifying temp accounts and for determining how old a temp account may be when interacting with it
Hi! Thanks for adding me @JJMC89. We'll be happy to prioritize this. I'll provide another update here after consulting with my tech lead.
Aug 1 2023
Seems to be done per @STran
Jul 27 2023
I don't think so. The idea is to preserve the current experience on wiki B - so it would be best not to create the impression that temp accounts exist on wiki B. It would be misleading to do that when we end up attributing the edits to their IP address when they eventually edit.
- If the user wanders back to wiki A again, should they still be signed in as the same temporary account?
Yes.
Jul 25 2023
Jul 20 2023
- Should blocked IPs defined in DnsBlacklistUrls and SoftBlockRanges apply to temporary account users?
If they apply to unregistered editors at present then they should also apply to temporary accounts.
Jul 19 2023
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Jul 5 2023
This looks good to me. Thalia and I went over it in our 1:1.