2008/10/5 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu:
On Sunday 05 October 2008 15:39:29 Sebastian Moleski wrote:
I understand *what* people want to do with it. What I don't understand is *why. What benefit does OpenID provide over just registering with your usual user name and password at any site? If there's an
People don't like registering at websites. If Wikimedia projects would use OpenID, they would attract users they otherwise wouldn't have.
And a lot of "anons" would be a lot more identifiable.
Creating logins on 100 websites is a pain in the backside and one of the reasons we allow anon editing - it lures people in.
- d.