On Jan 30, 2006, at 16:13, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
# I assume that does OpenID, LID and YADIS given the development you # guys have been doing on those areas?
Nope. It's an OpenID-only patch.
# Is it just Relying Party support, or does it also enable registered # Wikipedia users to use their Wikipedia identity with other places?
The patch lets people use their OpenID identities to authenticate to MediaWiki; that's all.
In which case, I'd argue that we'd rather not deliver URL-based identity functionality piece-meal to the nice folks at Wikipedia who would probably like to avoid having to do more integration more often than necessary ...
I was told this morning that V0.9 of the YADIS spec is done as of yesterday and will be on-line shortly. The purpose of this spec -- which for all practical purposes could have been called 1.0RC1 -- is to give implementors like yourself the opportunity to provide final feedback, and will be renamed to 1.0 within the month or so unless something very unexpected happens.
For those of you on this list who don't know what this is all about -- YADIS is the discovery mechanism that "everybody" with URL-based identity technologies has agreed to, and as far as I know, most (all?) OpenID (and LID, and i-names, ...) implementors have agreed to "upgrade" their implementation to YADIS.
Of course, what does and doesn't make it into the Wikipedia code base when is entirely up to their team ... these are just my thoughts. And yes, I'd absolutely love to see broad URL-based identity support in Wikipedia...
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