On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Gries <[email protected]> wrote:
> These are totally *different* things. The Extension can offer both (!)
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631
> Wikimedia should become an OpenID provider
>

I'd love Wikimedia to be a provider, but I'd prefer we don't use the
OpenID extension for this. We have other authn/authz needs. We can't
do authentication and authorization piecemeal without going insane.

> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9604
> Support OpenID extension on all wikimedia projects

OpenID as a consumer on the sites is a really difficult problem. I'm
not even going to go into it in this thread.

- Ryan

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