Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect

Max, Thank you. These ideals of which you speak are similar to those of argumentation. In the ideals of argumentation, reason should prevail. In this way, it doesn’t matter who makes an utterance, what matters is the utterance, its veracity, logical soundness, and so forth. The ideals of

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect

Hi! > Account verification was initially a feature for public figures and > accounts of public interest, individuals in music, acting, fashion, > government, politics, religion, journalism, media, sports, business > and other key interest areas. Account verification was introduced to > Twitter in

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect

Have you tried discussing this with the community? Let me tell you what their reaction will be: "we don't care who you are, we care what are your sources". Everywhere online, exposing your real life identity means a possibility of real life problems: stalking, harassment, attempts to get someone

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect

Chad, I’m working on a new Wikipedia article, Account Verification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Account_verification). Account verification can enhance the quality of online services, mitigating sockpuppetry, bots, trolls, spam, vandalism, fake news, disinformation and election interference.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect

On Fri, May 4, 2018, 1:21 PM Adam Sobieski wrote: > With such features, we can envision allowing groups of users or admins to > determine that certain articles require a verified account to edit. > Why would this be desirable? -Chad >

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2018-05-02

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Public IRC Meeting on Colorable SVG occured minutes available here: * RFC Approved

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect

Wikitech-l, Greetings. I would like to describe an exciting scenario possible with OpenID Connect. In the scenario, after choosing to verify their name on their Wikipedia account, a user logs onto Wikipedia and uses OpenID Connect to link their Wikipedia account to multiple verified accounts,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit newcomer bot

Great work! I'm sure this will be incredibly helpful to a lot of new developers. :) On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:45 AM Srishti Sethi wrote: > *Hello all,A quick update related to Gerrit -- you will notice a small > change on patches uploaded by new developers. There is a bot

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit newcomer bot

*Hello all,A quick update related to Gerrit -- you will notice a small change on patches uploaded by new developers. There is a bot now which is adding a reviewer (as "Welcome, new contributor!") and a welcome message in a comment to a patch submitted by a new developer. You would also be able to