Guys,
Accepting OpenID works on generic MediaWiki - making it work for Wikimedia
considering it's just a mapping between OpenID credentials and MediaWiki
user ID (centralized or not) is not a problem - user accounts will stay the
same and will have the ability to use password auth instead of OpenID if
desired.
I'm trying to make OpenID registration and login for MediaWiki as easy and
user friendly as possible and will be happy if some of this work will enable
it to get implemented on Wikimedia projects.
You can see my latest UI improvements (rel 0.8.4.x in SVN) implemented on my
projects:
http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Special:OpenIDLogin and
http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:OpenIDLogin (without icons)
OpenID extension is currently nominated on Usability project:
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Environment_Survey/MediaWiki_Extensions…
If you feel that there are bugs of reatures that will make OpenID more
viable, feel free to add them to Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
Thank you,
Sergey
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Sergey Chernyshev
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Aryeh Gregor <
Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com <Simetrical%2Bwikilist(a)gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Strainu
<strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, in my view, the benefit will be the ability
to use Wikipedia logins
for linked projects. I have at least two use-cases in mind:
1. A local chapter's website/blog/whatever.
2. Sensitive tools that would require login. One such example would be
WikiVerifier [1], an anti-vandal tool used on the Romanian Wikipedia
That actually does make sense. I retract my objection to Wikipedia as
an OpenID provider, regardless of whether it's a consumer.
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