On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there any plans to make Wikipedia a opneID provider? I would really be > interesting if we could log on to wikipedia-replated sites with the same ID.
For my part, I'm firmly against joining the "provider but not consumer" camp. It's of no benefit to anyone -- it's easy to get OpenID providers with better uptimes than us, who are probably at least as trusted. On the other hand, it adds a perpetual maintenance burden, since we'd be total jerks if we didn't support all our OpenID users forever. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought the whole point of OpenID was that you didn't have to create > an account on every site, you could just turn up and use your existing > one. That's one way to use it. But sign-up could be made a lot easier even without OpenID -- really we just need a username and password entered, not significantly harder than just typing your preexisting OpenID username. The real advantage of using OpenID, IMO, is to prevent users from having to remember seven zillion passwords. The only reason it would simplify account creation is if you required your users to fill out lengthy forms when registering -- which we already don't. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
