https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631
Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #12 from Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> 2012-08-16 13:21:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0) > Too facilitate verification of a Wikimedia user for external tools without the > need to give the password to that tool, Wikimedia should become an OpenID > provider. (In reply to comment #6) > This would also greatly benefit the Toolserver. Right now, toolserver tools > can't be personalized without some major effort, and the hassle for users to > create an extra account. Using OpenID would also allow simple implementation > of > opt-in services, which are using nasty workarounds right now. -- ~~~~ OpenID is not the proper tool for either of these. OpenID is made so that users can use their identity on one site to log in to another site. If our aim to allow users to let external tools access their account without a password, OAuth would be the thing to enable. (In reply to comment #4) > Created use-case (and learning resource): > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Ethical_Management_of_the_English_Language_Wikipedia/Ethics_and_MediaWiki/Use_cases#OpenID_at_Wikimedia:_account.openid.wikimedia.org None of these use cases necessarily involve Wikipedia becoming an OpenID provider. In both use cases, they would both work just fine if the user had an OpenID identity somewhere else. What they really depend on is login using OpenID, which is in bug 9604. ---- >From what I can see, there is not really a point of making WMF an OpenID provider. The only reason you would want to is to allow users to log in to other sites (StackOverflow, for instance) using their Wikipedia account as an identity. I do not think this is the intended goal, nor should it be. Login through OpenID, on the other hand, is probably the better solution (along with OAuth). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
