World Community Grid (WCG) is a BOINC project that supports a range of humanitarian research. WCG has its own way of registering; accounts can be created only on the web, not via server-to-server communication. Until recently this prevented it from being included in Science United.

We fixed this by having all Science United computing use a single WCG account. We made the same change for Einstein@home, which recently switched to web-only account creation. We may do the same for all projects; there's no real reason to use different project accounts for different SU users.

This doesn't impact SU users, except that instead of user names like "Science United user 3ac9082d" you'll just see "Science United".

That makes sense and fits in with the overall scheme of things. Incidentally, you should have it as policy due to the anonymous nature of SU that there's no support for folks who use work-arounds to get BOINC style stats.

I like this direction. UNITED does mean unity...which means, let's unify the accounting under 1 label / goal... Science United !

I have a WCG account and now a SU account after SETI took a dive. I am confused on if I should not include WCG in my BOINC manager now? If I remove WCG wouldn't that impact my team stats?

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This is strange, because since I was automatically connected to the WCG, I should be able to check the progress of the project and I can't. SU login data does not work on WCG. They write that I have earned a Diamond 50 Year badge for your contribution to Microbiome Immunity Project and earned a Diamond 5 Year badge for your contribution to OpenPandemics - COVID-19. But what does it mean and how can I check it ?
I contacted the WCG project support but they wrote back that I either have to set up an account on their website or ask SU for information from these shared projects for WCG. So how do you recommend?

I have a BOINC account on WCG and I running their tasks both on a Windows 10 PC and a slower Linux box. I got three Gold Badges from WCG. On the Windows 10 PC which has a 24 GB RAM I have installed a Virtual Machine Linux box with Open SuSE Tumbleweed which is a development version with kernel 5.8.7-1. That is the only computer I have left to Science United since it used to send me only Milkyway@home and Asteroids@home tasks, and I wanted to take part in the COVID-19 efforts both in WCG and Rosetta@home. But now I see both WCG and Rosetta tasks running on it.
Tullio

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I had been on World Community Grid from 2004 until IBM dropped its support. I am back on WCG now via Science United, but SU seems not to know about my previous history on IBM. SU does complain that I have two connections to WCG, but it only seems to have one active. SU suggests that I remove all links to WCG and then reestablish a connection through the WCG website. I hesitate to do that since I cannot be sure that some of my recent history will not be lost in the process, and their suggestion for removing the current project connection does not work anyway -- the "Remove" button on the project page is grayed out.