Problem: There are over 800 WMF wiki's that cross-project contributors may use. Users may autocreate accounts on projects by visiting, however it only occurs by logging in to the project.
Proposed solution: Create a function that will attach an existing CentralAuth user to every project.
Who would benefit: Stewards, Global Rollbackers, Global Sysops, the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, and others doing massively cross-project support
More comments: There used to be a userscript to help with this process, however it is not compatible with current browsers.
@Xaosflux Would fixing the user script be a solution? I wonder how many people really want this functionality and whether it really belongs as part of mw:Extension:CentralAuth. But if it's restricted to some permission, as you say, I suppose it's harmless to implement it directly in MediaWiki.
Either way we will approve this proposal, but if most people are content with a working script, I imagine that can be done quite easily – likely within a day. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 18:31, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@MusikAnimal (WMF) since this is really only for massive centralauth deployments (which practically is only the WMF cluster) - script based should still be fine (we could even gadgetize it here). We certainly didn't require a permission for a script - but was trying to not make it too easy for User:DisruptiveUsername to show up on hundreds of account creation logs at once. — xaosfluxTalk18:37, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Got it! I will accept this proposal as-is, then, but I imagine a script is what we'll actually do. This wish may or may not be granted before the survey even finishes :) MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:47, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't get the point of this proposal. What would it actually improve? It would make the local account autocreation log entirely useless (granted I'm not sure how useful it is now), in exchange you'd have accounts on wikis you have never visited... what for? --Tgr (talk) 05:48, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Tgr, may be helpful for local searching by others users perhaps, for receiving a message by mail or at own talk page locally. Also the user will have the ability to be notified.
@MusikAnimal (WMF): I wonder what will be the underlying IP of accounts created. There may have privacy concerns. If the IP is owned by the account owner, they will leave too many tracks, and they will be able to be checked everywhere, which is good and bad at same time. If that’s someone else’s IP, that can be confusing. Just thought about it. —Teles «Talk ˱CL@S˲» 16:20, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
maybe... but why doe still have local accounts ? Maybe its time to get rid of that instead ? one step closer now that actor migration is so much further along. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:13, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Might want to add the script as a gadget here on Meta (restricting to autopatrolled or similar would probably be sensible) but I don't think this needs a native implementation. ~~~~ User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)17:02, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]