On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Jon Davis <w...@konsoletek.com> wrote: > As for being an OpenID provider... only one major thought: Having this > Foundation be a provider would be a lot of additional server load (It is > 100% non-cacheable) without any benefit to the main goal of providing free > information.
I imagine the load wouldn't be a big deal. An OpenID server is pretty simple, no? On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > The biggest immediate benefit to becoming a provider is for > non-MediaWiki based apps that the foundation uses. If we become a > provider, our Wordpress, Bugzilla, Ideatorrent, etc. apps don't need > to have separate username/password databases. Assuming all of these actually support OpenID as consumers, without annoying limitations. Do they? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
