2009/7/23 Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ryan Lane<rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Check out how the Flickr API works. Users can give web and desktop >> apps privileges (read/write/delete). >> >> It isn't really that bizarre of a concept. > > Read/write/delete access to what? The only cases where read access > would be relevant would be what, watchlist and preferences, pretty > much? I don't think we'd want this for editing, or admin-only stuff > like viewing deleted pages.
Eh? I do. Else why bother even having a write API? Why bother even having the login aspect to the API? I can imagine someone building an alternative edit interface for a subset of Wikipedia content, say a WikiProject. Then the interface can strip away all the general crud and just provide information relevant to that topic area. The OAuth provider typically has a page on the service (say en.wp) that lists all the third party apps you have granted authorisation to. This authorisation can be time-limited in itself, but if an app starts misbehaving (say, doing edits you didn't tell it to do), you can revoke its authorisation from the service directly (rather than having to change your password to stop it). Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
