Hoi,
According to the website of myopenid [1], they are closing down Februari 1. My hope was for the Wikimedia Foundation to come to the rescue and provide a non commercial alternative to what Google and Facebook offer.
I am extremely disappointed that we are not. I hope that what is done instead has at least a similar impact than leaving it all to the commercial boys and girls. Privacy should not be left to commerce and national secret services. Thanks, GerardM
On 27 November 2013 03:27, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
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%3E
Rob
[1] "OAuth now available on Wikimedia wikis" Dan Garry: < https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/22/oauth-on-wikimedia-wikis/%3E _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l