On 02/22/2013 05:03 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
or allowing external non-WMF sites to authenticate against our user database.
Actually, that's the objective -- allow external tools to have their users be able to prove "I am Wikimedia user Coren" without having to hack around with edits-as-authentication-tokens or the enduser giving their credentials to some untrusted system.
-- Marc