Ryan Lane wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Jon Davis <w...@konsoletek.com> wrote: > >> I could see some real use cases for OAuth. Especially with regards to the >> cases mentioned above. People could potentially build apps like AWB and >> Huggle using OAuth. In general I think this would be a "cool thing" to have >> for all MediaWiki installs. >> >> As for being an OpenID provider... only one major thought: Having this >> Foundation be a provider would be a lot of additional server load (It is >> 100% non-cacheable) without any benefit to the main goal of providing free >> information. >> >> > > The biggest immediate benefit to becoming a provider is for > non-MediaWiki based apps that the foundation uses. If we become a > provider, our Wordpress, Bugzilla, Ideatorrent, etc. apps don't need > to have separate username/password databases. As someone mentioned > earlier, it would be extremely useful for the toolserver. > > Even for third-party applications, if we just provide OAuth, they > would still need to handle user account databases, and that isn't > optimal. It is especially less optimal for WMF users, who would need > to have user accounts in a number of spots, and possibly have to > remember multiple passwords. > > Respectfully, > > Ryan Lane > You sure you can't use pure OAuth similarly to the way you can with OpenID? I know they have their own user management, but disqus is using OAuth to turn twitter accounts into a login.
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