On 11/04/2008, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think Wikimedia will use OpenId for logging in
Can I ask why? Not in a pushy sense, I'm just curious what would lead to that. FWIW, Wikitravel uses OpenID logins - not surprising, since Evan originated the code - very effectively. It would be very pleasant to be able to harmonize my Wikipedia and Wikitravel accounts via OpenID.
,but chances are that Wikimedia becomes an OpenId provider: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631.
That's unfortunate. There are now a glut of OpenID providers on the market, including as of recently Google, the 8,000 pound gorilla of the online account world. However very few of them seem to be willing to go the full distance and allow consume OpenID as well.