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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Robb Shecter wrote:
But there's one problem: people would need to log in to Wikipedia *through my app*. They'd have to enter their username and password to my app, which would turn around an authenticate via the MediaWiki API. Policy-wise, this isn't a good thing; that is, giving people the message that it's ok to type in your credentials to something other than Wikipedia sites.
This is a perennial problem for many Toolserver tools as well. It has resulted in such hacks as http://toolserver.org/~magnus/tusc.php - an OpenID-based solution is clearly preferable.
- -Mike