Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-03-03 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 2/20/11 4:52 PM, Platonides wrote: You may have noticed that I included a horrible page to log you in instead of the content (the lightweight page). That can be replaced with a javascript login, if it is clear how to do it. That's a terrible idea. I routinely edit (and do everything else)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The benefit of JavaScript is ease of use. Most people are not willing to do without the modern comforts. Thanks, GerardM On 3 March 2011 20:37, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/20/11 4:52 PM, Platonides wrote: You may have noticed that I included

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-03-03 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:37 PM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: That's a terrible idea.  I routinely edit (and do everything else) without javascript running.  There's really no need for it. With JavaScript, we could skip the interstitial page when you log in and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
Platonides wrote: CORS does seem to be the way to go. I have drafted a new proposal below which attempts to fix several bug in our way of doing central login. Two questions and a comment about this. First, would this impede the ability to switch to an AJAX login interface in the future?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 02/20/2011 09:53 PM, MZMcBride wrote: Platonides wrote: CORS does seem to be the way to go. I have drafted a new proposal below which attempts to fix several bug in our way of doing central login. Two questions and a comment about this. First, would this impede the ability to switch to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread Platonides
MZMcBride wrote: Platonides wrote: CORS does seem to be the way to go. I have drafted a new proposal below which attempts to fix several bug in our way of doing central login. Two questions and a comment about this. First, would this impede the ability to switch to an AJAX login interface

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 02/20/2011 11:52 PM, Platonides wrote: MZMcBride wrote: Second, would this impede the ability to remove the you've been logged in screen? Aryeh mentioned an idea that would allow MediaWiki to remove this horrible workflow interrupter.[2] You may have noticed that I included a horrible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-19 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Platonides platoni...@gmail.com writes: CORS does seem to be the way to go. I have drafted a new proposal below which attempts to fix several bug in our way of doing central login. Would this allow CentralAuth to work with IE8 in the “medium” privacy mode? I haven't tried it, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Create a multilingual wiki for handling logins, available as https://login.wikimedia.org/ https://login.wikipedia.org/ https://login.wikiversity.org/ etc. I would recommend users.*, that way in the future when we have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login

2011-02-18 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/2/17 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Finally, I completely concur with Brion that the additional Log in globally checkbox should be removed, and a better solution be sought, per 1). It's not something that users should need to think about. I'm happy with removing it *after* we get the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login (was: Recommendation to revert global login checkbox)

2011-02-17 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/2/17 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: The reason I set to add it was that loggin in on not-too-used sites actually short lived my long sessions. Bug 24471 [1] explains a similar problem although you have to read [2] to understand it. My take on all this is that it would be useful to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login

2011-02-17 Thread Platonides
Erik Moeller wrote: The experience that Sage describes in bug 24471 of not being consistently logged in arguably shouldn't occur in the first place per 1). Can we log the user into _all_ public Wikimedia wikis without incurring an unacceptable performance penalty? If so, how? We can do it if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login (was: Recommendation to revert global login checkbox)

2011-02-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: The reason I set to add it was that loggin in on not-too-used sites actually short lived my long sessions. Bug 24471 [1] explains a similar problem although you have to read [2] to understand it. I agree it's some UI