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== Failed attempt to register ==

Hello

I appreciate Wikipedia, and have been able to get a lot of good information here.  I have some things I could also contribute.  I attempted to register using my email address as my username.  After I filled in the fields I pushed the button to register, and got only a blank screen.  Later I came and attempted to log in under my username and password, and again got a blank screen
My email address is unfolding@smartchat.net.au 

Please let me know what to do

Thanks 

Richard Maguire

Sydney Australia

:Using an email address as a username is probably not a good idea, as spam havisters get email's from web sites. Try logging in with unfolding as you username, and put your email in the email field of the log in screen [[User:Theresa knott|theresa knott]] 09:24, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

:Hmm, an @ symbol in a username seems to cause this problem (I just replicated the black screen Richard got).  I'll check sourceforge and file a bug if one isn't outstanding. But Theresa's caution is correct, notwithstanding. -- [[User:Finlay McWalter|Finlay McWalter]] | [[User talk:Finlay McWalter | Talk]] 13:38, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

::On a related topic.  I do not currently have an account with MetaWiki or any of the other projects beyond the 'pedia.  I was thinking of setting up an account.  Is it a bad idea to use the same username/password for each project?  That's what I'd like to do, but I wondered if it would cause a conflict of some sort. Thanks. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod]] 15:02, May 5, 2004 (UTC)

:::Single sign-on is something that's on the development "todo" list (so you'd automatically register for every project in one go, and not have to worry about creating N new accounts).  But that's not done, so you do indeed need to register on each individual wikiproject.  I think almost everyone keeps the same username (and lets face it, the same password) on each wiki.  There's someting to be said for preemptively registering on a bunch of the wikis (such as the other-language ones) so that no-one can go there and register your username (and use it to frame you somehow).  It's quite sensible to be registered even for languages which you don't speak, as you can probably figure out interwikis anyway.  For those ones I usually leave a message on my user page there saying "I don't speak lower silesian, and I rarely visit this wiki, so if you want to talk to me, do it on 'en'". -- [[User:Finlay McWalter|Finlay McWalter]] | [[User talk:Finlay McWalter | Talk]] 15:19, 5 May 2004 (UTC)