On 02/22/2013 05:03 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
or allowing
external non-WMF sites to authenticate against our user database.
Actually, that's the objective -- allow external tools to have their
users be able to prove "I am Wikimedia user Coren" without having to
hack around with edits-as-authentication-tokens or the enduser giving
their credentials to some untrusted system.
-- Marc