Mono mium <monomium(a)gmail.com> writes:
I had a related question: Is there any way to actually
verify the logins of
Wikimedia users w/o username/password?
See
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/tusc.php. It verifies accounts by
asking you to edit your talk page with a hash.
There is also an OAuth proposal:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth
Mark.