Developing something new to make this work while something is readily available sounds quite evil to me (re-inventing the wheel, anyone?). A consideration is that in case this is actually going to be developed, we (Wikimedia) will possibly never be able to get rid of it because it'll have its tentacles deep into all kinds of stuff as a more widely available solution becomes available.
Let's not rush into this and think about using readily available (and possibly proven) solitions. OpenID could be one. Having SUL would probably make it easier to tie that all to Wikimedia wiki accounts...
Cheers! Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Bryan Tong Minh Verzonden: maandag 21 januari 2008 15:48 Aan: Wikimedia developers Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] Verification of identity for external tool
On Jan 21, 2008 2:37 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Too much trouble to go through?
Magnus
Well, it is still much better than the current situation. However my proposal concerns mostly the third point 'Verification through one (any) of the existing "hacks"'. Ideally we would have a centrally managed user system that uses my previously proposed system or some other clean system.
Bryan