On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Jon Davis wiki@konsoletek.com wrote:
As for being an OpenID provider... only one major thought: Having this Foundation be a provider would be a lot of additional server load (It is 100% non-cacheable) without any benefit to the main goal of providing free information.
I imagine the load wouldn't be a big deal. An OpenID server is pretty simple, no?
Yeah. I couldn't imagine it adding much load.
The biggest immediate benefit to becoming a provider is for non-MediaWiki based apps that the foundation uses. If we become a provider, our Wordpress, Bugzilla, Ideatorrent, etc. apps don't need to have separate username/password databases.
Assuming all of these actually support OpenID as consumers, without annoying limitations. Do they?
Bugzilla's looks like it has limitations, but the others have consumer support without limitations as far as I can see. We'd likely want to modify them slightly, so that we can have a simple button like "log in with your Wikimedia account".
Respectfully,
Ryan Lane