Am 15.08.2012 21:13, schrieb Ryan Lane:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Gries
<mail(a)tgries.de> wrote:
Am 15.08.2012 20:58, schrieb Mark Holmquist:
Saves
much time and efforts
You don't use it, otherwise you wouldn't have asked that question.
Clearly--but could you elaborate more as to why it's helpful? (Thomas
is currently in #ethereditor having this conversation)
OpenID was discussed in
other threads; a discussion of pros and cons
would be off-topic here.
I think it would be useful to have the openid extension enabled in
labs prototypes if wikimedia ran as a provider and the openid
extension was forced to use the wikimedia provider for login.
this has been filed back in 2008 as
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631
<mailto:Bryan.TongMinh@Gmail.com>"Too facilitate verification of a
Wikimedia user for external tools without the need to give the password
to that tool, Wikimedia should become an OpenID provider."