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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Robb Shecter wrote:
But there's one problem: people would need to log
in to Wikipedia
*through my app*. They'd have to enter their username and password to
my app, which would turn around an authenticate via the MediaWiki API.
Policy-wise, this isn't a good thing; that is, giving people the
message that it's ok to type in your credentials to something other
than Wikipedia sites.
This is a perennial problem for many Toolserver tools as well. It has
resulted in such hacks as
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/tusc.php - an
OpenID-based solution is clearly preferable.
- -Mike
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