On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:34:00PM -0500, Frederick Grose wrote: > > > I find that authenticating through OpenID is less onerous than repetitive > edit confirmations, and allows TOS folks to not focus on the authentication > arms race.
Makes sense to me, but I'm one of those people who already has an OpenID account. :) Do Twitter, Facebook, and the like provide OpenID authentication forward? I don't want to get in to a flavor-of-the-year social media auth chase, but if these big houses implement the standards, it makes my following argument weaker ... Because I wonder, how many of our target education audience have an OpenID account somewhere already? If they don't, the requirement to get and use one *will* have a chilling effect people contributing to the wiki. I don't care that we're mostly talking computer science educators, either. :) I'm sure many of our desired brothers and sisters haven't touched Facebook or Twitter and may not have any sort of OpenID account available. As I said in my other reply, I think we should implement a we-know-it's-broken-but-maybe-we're-too-small captcha for the short-term. I don't want to see the spambots take back all the good work Ryan et al are doing. For the near-term, we should look in to one of these shared authentication schemes, and try to find a way to not raise the barrier overly much against real humans. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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