On Jan 22, 2008 5:56 PM, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 22, 2008 12:27 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like a good and useful idea to me. "Oh, you're that guy from Wikipedia." People should be able to edit with the attribution being to an OpenID.
Well, maybe. At the very least, we should require a captcha for OpenID signups. Then they're not really any different, abuse-wise, from any signup (if you can write a script to auto-generate OpenIDs you can definitely write a script to auto-fill the username and password fields). We'd also want to require independent validation of the e-mail address, if the user provides one, unless the provider is trusted.
I'm not sure whether I understand OpenId's concept well enough, but what if Wikimedia would only be an OpenID provider? This way one can use their Wikimedia account on other places on the net, without having us to worry about the trustworthiness of other providers.
Bryan