Karsten Wade wrote: > 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 ...
Not Twitter or Facebook, but I think OpenID is provided by Google/Blogger, Yahoo/flickr, AOL, Livejournal, WordPress and that's just off the top of my head. http://openid.net/get-an-openid/ also lists Myspace, Orange and some I've not heard of. The disappointing things are: 1. some of these are fiddly to use (Blogger, AOL, Livejournal and Wordpress seem pretty easy, others less so) so probably want explaining on the page, maybe with links that launch the OpenID process with the right URL generated from the screen name; 2. many OpenID implementations have user interface bugs, so you need to add links and explanations to make it easy to use. The OpenID add-on But it is still definitely better than ability-based captchas (the "read the blurred image" or "hear the distorted speech" stuff that locks out some humans) which should almost never be used in a civilised society, and less irritating than maths questions. Installing anti-spam modules too is a good idea. Captchas and authentication are not content analysis or moderation and should not be mistaken for them. I don't know if there are realistic anti-spam modules for MediaWiki because I've not tried them. Some Wikimedia sites require authorised-user approval of some anonymous edits, but I'm not sure what controls that. Anyone know? Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work http://www.software.coop/products/ _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
