Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Utility to attach acccount to all wikis

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Utility to attach acccount to all wikis

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.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: — xaosflux ^Talk 17:03, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

To reduce certain abuse factors, may want to limit to a permission. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:09, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@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. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:37, 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]
Possible patch to old userscript listed at User_talk:Krinkle/Tools#running_Global_SUL.js_does_not_create_local_accounts by User:Suffusion of Yellow. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:56, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Path appears to work. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:43, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The patch has been applied to the original script which fulfills this wish before voting is even complete. --BDavis (WMF) (talk) 21:36, 10 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 ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:20, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Teles Today, script-wise, it is the enduser ip; the same as if they just visit a new project SUL logs them in. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:05, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Xaosflux, got it. Tks. —Teles «Talk ˱_{C L @ S}˲» 16:08, 13 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]
@Xaosflux: I've marked this as Done by Suffusion of Yellow, given that Krinkle's user script now works — does that sound okay? — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 19:49, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'd think so, unless someone really wants to write a path to SUL for this! — xaosflux ^Talk 21:14, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Xbypass (talk) 19:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
پاسخگویی در مقابل عملیات انجام شده توسط ادمین با سرعت بیشتری صورت گیرد Sat1980 (talk) 06:44, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Luxtaythe2nd (talk) 19:53, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support PureTuber (talk) 20:11, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support It appears this will be easy to implement. Perfect for the wish-a-thon. HouseBlaster (talk) 20:21, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support RenkoTheBird (talk) 20:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support MisterSynergy (talk) 20:37, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Quinnerwinner12 (talk) 20:44, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Baah Thomas (talk) 21:19, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's a pity that the userscript is no longer compatible with current browsers. SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 22:09, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hehua (talk) 00:54, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support 26 Ramadan (talk) 01:38, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support XtexChooser (talk) 01:41, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Should be relatively easy to implement as there already exists a MediaWiki job that could be run to autocreate on every wiki. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | enwiki} 02:39, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support EpicPupper (talk) 05:04, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Soumendrak (talk) 06:13, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arado Ar 196 (talk) 08:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support V0lkanic (talk) 08:42, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oltrepier (talk) 08:48, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support CaféBuzz (talk) 09:38, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 13:35, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support User scripts are not usable and we need a new tool for this. There are not many people who want to do this, though. Thingofme (talk) 13:52, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Robertsky (talk) 17:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ameisenigel (talk) 08:51, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tryvix ^t 14:02, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Husky (talk) 20:54, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Svartava (talk) 08:00, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ドラみそ (talk) 02:54, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SpacedShark (talk) 05:22, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Very strong support This tool is desperately needed in my opinion. NPRB (talk) 14:30, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ElBe ^{1 | 2 | WP} 15:49, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Ani6032 (talk) 09:57, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 11:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 04:17, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --——d—n—f (fr.-sysop) (talk) 07:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hey man im josh (talk) 15:08, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JFremd (talk) 15:46, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 07:38, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kalesh (talk) 09:02, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lightoil (talk) 02:50, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Best Resolution Homolego (talk) 15:27, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Ferien (talk) 16:19, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, preferably as a user script... which is now fixed ;-) MarioGom (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Captain Almighty Nutz (talk) 01:58, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support The person who loves reading (talk) 16:16, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:30, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Augend (talk) 07:50, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Morten Haan (talk) 18:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 01:46, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]