My thanks to all for an interesting discussion / debate. I hope that those who participated also enjoyed the exchange of ideas.
Those so interested are expressly welcomed to contribute on the encyclopedia article(s) Account Verification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Account_verification) and a potential Account Verification on Wikipedia section or article where I will collate and summarize our discussion and what I learned during it. I will be sure to reference content utilized in our discussion (e.g. [1]). Best regards, Adam P.S.: My thanks again to Gergo. I may take Gergo up on petitioning the MediaWiki OpenID Connect team with regard to these highly configurable features or myself contributing to the MediaWiki codebase (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub). I do write software and know PHP. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_credential_policy From: Kaartic Sivaraam<mailto:kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 1:26 PM To: Wikimedia developers<mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; Adam Sobieski<mailto:adamsobie...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki and OpenID Connect On Tuesday 08 May 2018 07:57 PM, Adam Sobieski wrote: > In response to some discussion, I now consider there to be two distinct > topics: (1) MediaWiki software should provide configurable OpenID Connect > features for account verification and account linking, (2) Wikipedia should > utilize and configure such features at all, in a certain way or have a > certain policy. > I think Gergo has made a valid and strong point by pointing out a decision that has already been made [0]. Regardless, you might be very interested in finding a conclusion to a long-standing problem. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the right place to discuss this (as already noted by someone else on this thread). Try discussing this in the "Wikimedia Forum" [1] or the "Village pump of enwiki" [2] and similar pages on other projects. You would get a better discussion there. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_no_credential_policy [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump -- Sivaraam QUOTE: “The most valuable person on any team is the person who makes everyone else on the team more valuable, not the person who knows the most.” - Joel Spolsky Sivaraam? You possibly might have noticed that my signature recently changed from 'Kaartic' to 'Sivaraam' both of which are parts of my name. I find the new signature to be better for several reasons one of which is that the former signature has a lot of ambiguities in the place I live as it is a common name (NOTE: it's not a common spelling, just a common name). So, I switched signatures before it's too late. That said, I won't mind you calling me 'Kaartic' if you like it [of course ;-)]. You can always call me using either of the names. KIND NOTE TO THE NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER: As I'm not a native English speaker myself, there might be mistaeks in my usage of English. I apologise for any mistakes that I make. It would be "helpful" if you take the time to point out the mistakes. It would be "super helpful" if you could provide suggestions about how to correct those mistakes. Thanks in advance! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
