On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:
BrowserID/Persona currently requires JavaScript to function. So it really doesn't fit the kind of thing that we support as a standard way to login.
I don't think it's a very good use of WMF's funding.
Is this the begin of a clash of civilisations between WMF and MediaWiki ?
No, but generally speaking if WMF devs are going to invest time in a project if it directly benefits the projects or third parties. There's no reason someone couldn't take this up as an extension (like any other).
As to whether this would benefit WMF--it won't. We just discussed this a month ago (see: [wikitech-l] Code ideas thread), and BrowserID was mentioned. It was said at the time that it wouldn't be useful to the WMF (privacy policy issues, if memory serves).
-Chad