[Wikitech-l] Federated Login to Wikipedia. Re: OAuth

2012-03-21 Thread Andreas Åkre Solberg
John Erling Blad pointed us to this thread. I was not subscribed to the list, so I'm sorry that this repond probably creates a new thread. We, UNINETT, operates Feide, the norwegian Identity Federation for students from lower and higher education and research institutions in Norway. Feide

Re: [Wikitech-l] Federated Login to Wikipedia. Re: OAuth

2012-03-21 Thread John Du Hart
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Andreas Åkre Solberg andreas.solb...@uninett.no wrote: If you are interested in doing a pilot with connecting wikipedia to Feide, we may provide you with further details to proceed with that. Yeah, I'd rather not tie down the 6 largest website in the world to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Federated Login to Wikipedia. Re: OAuth

2012-03-21 Thread John Erling Blad
Federated login is not about exclusive login systems, its really the complete oposite. Its about how to pass credentials in a secure fashion between systems. Jeblad on a not-so-smart-phone On 21. mars 2012 15.45, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Andreas