On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote:
On 02/22/2013 03:17 PM, maiki wrote:
Is this up for discussion, or are we at the point of planning
deployment?
The latter. I can elucidate a number of scenarios where that is beneficial,
but the primary one from my perspective is that of authenticating for
external tools (like bots and webservices) written by community developers.
Each of them currently need their own mechanism, have to implement baroque
processes to associate a Wiki[mp]edia account, and increase exposure of
credentials for the users.
OpenID neatly fixes all that in one, simple to implement, open and well
known manner.
-- Marc
To add another possible use case: We recently ran a small survey for
readers of
blog.wikimedia.org. In one question, we asked the editors
among them "Would you be interested in being able to log into the blog
with your Wikimedia account?", and 73% (of 137 respondents) said yes.
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB