On Jan 22, 2008 5:56 PM, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2008 12:27 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds like a good and useful idea to me.
"Oh, you're that guy from
Wikipedia." People should be able to edit with the attribution being
to an OpenID.
Well, maybe. At the very least, we should require a captcha for
OpenID signups. Then they're not really any different, abuse-wise,
from any signup (if you can write a script to auto-generate OpenIDs
you can definitely write a script to auto-fill the username and
password fields). We'd also want to require independent validation of
the e-mail address, if the user provides one, unless the provider is
trusted.
I'm not sure whether I understand OpenId's concept well enough, but
what if Wikimedia would only be an OpenID provider? This way one can
use their Wikimedia account on other places on the net, without having
us to worry about the trustworthiness of other providers.
Bryan