On 2013-02-22 7:20 PM, "Tyler Romeo" tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
To be absolutely clear, this does *not* solve the problem of bots/tools authenticating on behalf of a user. All it does is solve the problem of where a bot/tool authenticates under its own user account and, out of pure courtesy for the community, asks users to prove their identity before allowing them to use the bot/tool.
Which coincides to several bots/tools and would generally be quite useful. Quite honestly having bots make edits directly on someones behalf using their account sounds scary.
This would also be useful for test wikis people set up on labs. You could just authenticate via openid instead of creating a new account.
-bawolff