Hello, 2009/4/27 Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com>: > Is there some benefit with being a provider? Why not > just accept id's for login? There's way too many providers > as it is.
A lot of people have expressed interest in having Wikimedia as their provider, given the large number of projects that Wikimedia has this makes sense to some extent. Some people would also enjoy the novelty value of Wikimedia being their OpenID provider. It may also make the early stages of deployment and testing easier (perhaps as a prelude to accepting external providers). 2009/4/27 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: > It's too late. You need to make that kind of decision when you first > start. Dealing with conflicts when we went over to global accounts > within Wikimedia was hard enough, dealing with them if we went over to > accepting OpenIDs would be a nightmare. I think OpenIDs would (should?) be tied to accounts, not used as usernames. Regards, Robert Leverington _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
