Chris Watkins wrote: > On Appropedia.org, we're thinking about using the API to better link with > other sites. Those partner sites sometimes have a concern about login, > though. > > It would be best if a logged-in user from the other site could be recognized > by the wiki in some way. E.g. someone logged into the Drupal site of Engineers > Without Borders UK <http://www.ewb-uk.org/> as jane.smith who then edited a > page via the API would be shown as something like "jane.smith (ewb-uk)" in > the Appropedia page's history. > > Even better would be if the user could optionally connect their account on > another site with an existing Appropedia account, so they don't end up with > two or more accounts by editing via different sites. > > Any suggestions? If we wanted to implement something like this, where would > we start? > > Thanks.
What about using OpenID? (see OpenID extension) That way jane smith from ewb-uk would use ewb-uk.org as OpenID provider and appear as [email protected] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
