On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 10:21 PM Adam Sobieski <adamsobie...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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, for example their Facebook > and LinkedIn accounts. At the end of the process, we can envision the user > obtaining a checkmark next to their full name on Wikipedia, their real name > and a verification icon appearing next to their edits and on their user > page. There might even be, per user settings, hyperlinks to their Facebook > and LinkedIn pages on their Wikipedia user page. With such features, we can > envision allowing groups of users or admins to determine that certain > articles require a verified account to edit. > There has been a fair amount of discussion (mainly after the Essjay affair) on verified expert accounts on English Wikipedia, but ultimately the idea has been rejected. You can read about it at [1]. As others have noted, account linking is a fairly minor convenience for having verified real-life identities; if there was any intent to make that happen it would have happened regardless of software support. Having non-public account linking (as an antispam measure that has better user experience than captchas) is a more feasible idea IMO; I wrote some thoughts on that at [2]. If you just want public links to verified accounts in MediaWiki (as opposed to Wikipedia / other Wikimedia projects), there is nothing stopping you; you should propose a patch to the OpenID Connect maintainer (all it takes is probably just adding a hook such as GetPreferences to display the information at the appropriate place) or write your own extension. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_credential_policy [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tgr_(WMF)/external_login _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
