On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.orgwrote:
<quote name="maiki" date="2013-02-22" time="12:17:25 -0800"> > Is this up for discussion, or are we at the point of planning > deployment? It isn't apparent to me why any WMF site would be an OpenID > provider.
To phrase this differently:
Do you more prefer that WMF sites consume OpenIDs instead of (or in addition to) providing them?
This isn't really a matter of having one or the other. As Marc has mentioned, we need some non-hacky form of authentication for bots, tools, out-of-cluster applications, and non-mediawiki applications.
OpenID as a consumer is a more difficult task for a number of reasons. I like to tackle problems one at a time and making a provider is an easy first step.
- Ryan