On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ryan Lane<rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Check out how the Flickr API works. Users can give web and desktop > apps privileges (read/write/delete). > > It isn't really that bizarre of a concept.
Read/write/delete access to what? The only cases where read access would be relevant would be what, watchlist and preferences, pretty much? I don't think we'd want this for editing, or admin-only stuff like viewing deleted pages. Preferences probably don't have a serious use-case, and if we're only left with watchlists, special-casing is the way to go. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Brianna Laugher<brianna.laug...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking that the only private data you can really access via > the API is watchlist, so it's barely worth it, but then I thought that > for 3rd party apps using the write API, you would definitely want to > have an option for a user to use their existing Wiki*edia accounts It may not be able to take over their accounts, but it could still edit pages as them, which amounts to the same thing for many practical purposes. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
