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
-- Sergey Chernyshev http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Aryeh Gregor < Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com Simetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Strainu strainu10@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:
- A local chapter's website/blog/whatever.
- 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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