Am 15.08.2012 21:13, schrieb Ryan Lane:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:
Am 15.08.2012 20:58, schrieb Mark Holmquist:
Saves much time and efforts You don't use it, otherwise you wouldn't have asked that question.
Clearly--but could you elaborate more as to why it's helpful? (Thomas is currently in #ethereditor having this conversation)
OpenID was discussed in other threads; a discussion of pros and cons would be off-topic here.
I think it would be useful to have the openid extension enabled in labs prototypes if wikimedia ran as a provider and the openid extension was forced to use the wikimedia provider for login.
this has been filed back in 2008 as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631 mailto:Bryan.TongMinh@Gmail.com"Too facilitate verification of a Wikimedia user for external tools without the need to give the password to that tool, Wikimedia should become an OpenID provider."