Hi everyone,
If you were following our planning process this past spring/summer, you
probably heard that we had planned to deploy both OAuth and OpenID by the
end of 2013.
The good news is that we were able to complete our OAuth deployment (see
Dan Garry's blog post on the subject[1]). The bad news is that we weren't
able to get OpenID complete enough for deployment, we've decided to put
OpenID on hold to make room for some of our other work. Thomas Gries has
done some great work on this, and has been very responsive to our input
(we're a finicky bunch!) We fully anticipate being able to deploy this
sometime in 2014, but we don't yet have an exact plan for making this
happen.
We've communicated this through other channels, but hadn't broadcasted it
here, so we're a bit overdue for an update.
The Auth Systems page now has the latest information on what we were able
to do, and will have more on our future plans as we make them: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems>
Rob
[1] "OAuth now available on Wikimedia wikis" Dan Garry: <
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/22/oauth-on-wikimedia-wikis/>