Now that unified login has been enabled
As you may have heard, Wikimedia Foundation wikis (including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikibooks) now have the “unified login” feature enabled for users with the sysop bit. UL is the feature formerly known as “single-user login” (SUL), and it allows eligible users of one wiki to log onto any other WMF wiki with the same username and password.
My sysop bit on the English Wikipedia entitled me to set up UL, so I did. I’ve already used it to establish usernames on about a dozen wikis where I had not previously edited, and I’ve used those accounts to do minor BLP-related work. It’s extremely handy to be able to link those contributions back to my established identity on enwiki and metawiki, and to be able to keep watchlists on suspect articles.
One minor complaint: though Luxo’s tool shows all my contributions on a single page (when the toolserver is working, natch), I’d love a tool that shows all my most recent watchlist activity. Perhaps I can create one in my copious free time…
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