[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

[Anthony]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
> We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour is to allow loose affiliation of usernames between MediaWiki installs. That way you can establish the link between identities across wikis (of course, if you don't want to, you don't have to).

Also, there's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_committed_identity

But most people don't seem to care about these things.