On Wed, 2006-15-11 at 14:00 -0800, Johannes Ernst wrote:
Is this a good time to mention that there's a very nice OpenID extension to MediaWiki?
It's _always_ a good time to compliment my code. Thanks!
If you need a better explanatory URL, the main homepage is here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenID_Extension
See in action here: http://openid.net/wiki/
It's also in production on Wikitravel.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Single_sign-on_help
I don't think that OpenID is a realistic fix for username spoofing (since there are at least half-a-dozen free OpenID identity services), but it's always nice to mention.
Brion has said a few times that OpenID will be rolled out on Wikimedia sites once the Single User Login is in place.
-Evan