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[Matthew East]

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Hi,

As you all know, launchpad authentication is used for the Ubuntu wikis.
On the documentation wiki [1], it often happens that a user will edit
something and there is no way of contacting them to discuss their
contribution or engage in some dialogue about their work. This is
generally because:

1. It doesn't seem possible to search by WikiName (presumable easy to
fix, I'll look for a bug report)
2. The person witholds their email address on their launchpad personal
page, and
3. Although launchpad automatically gives them a WikiName which appears
on RecentChanges, they don't create a personal page on the wiki.

Can anyone think of a creative way to preserve people's right to
withhold their email address and yet permit us to contact people about
their contributions? Something like automatically creating a personal
wiki page which the user is subscribed to and on which we can then write
comments? It's kind of a compromise solution in that the user is
contactable, but the whole world doesn't see their email address.

Thoughts welcome.

Matt
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