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		<title>Multiple &quot;identities&quot; per user account</title>
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		<description>Posts in the discussion thread &quot;Multiple &quot;identities&quot; per user account&quot; - Eliminates separate logins for different wikis</description>
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				<title>Multiple &quot;identities&quot; per user account</title>
				<link>http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-118574/multiple-identities-per-user-account#post-351636</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Kynan</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>46389</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Something I always find inconvenient with wikis here (or other similar things, like journals on LiveJournal) is that sometimes I like separating "who I am" from different wikis. This is not in any way because I want to defraud anyone, just that for many social wikis (gaming, for example) I want to maintain a separation from other uses. Also, I might want to do this to keep a separation between these "social" sites and something related to any professional usage.</p> <p>Of course, I can set up multiple logins (and have already), but this is inconvenient as you need to logout then log back in again, and unless a site has limited permissions, it is easy to forget and make an edit/post where you use the wrong identity. Once this happens, you can't really erase it as the "wrong" identity persists in page logs, etc.</p> <p>Thus, it would be nice (and for me, would even be a reason to buy a Pro account), to have the ability to map my user account to a specific identity for a given wiki:</p> <ul> <li>An identity is unique among both identities and accounts</li> <li>Any post/edit I make in a wiki gets displayed using the identity I've mapped for that wiki</li> <li>If no identity has been mapped for a wiki, I am given the option to have the system use my account name, or ask me at that time what identity I want to use.</li> <li>At any later time, I can set up an identity mapping for a wiki, and then all previous logs of my activity will show only the new identity (obviously, this depends on the architecture of wikidot, where logs don't use strings but refer to a user by some id that can be mapped in a database)</li> <li>There should be no way for another Wikidot user to see the association between another's identity and their user account.</li> </ul> <p>From a user tracking perspective, allowing multiple identities does not encourage griefing or other abuse. As I already alluded to, simply creating another account is possible today. This new feature neither solves this issue, nor does it make it worse. If a user is reported, Wikidot staff can obviously tie the identity back to the user, and take appropriate action.</p> 
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