To be absolutely clear, this does *not* solve the problem of bots/tools authenticating on behalf of a user. All it does is solve the problem of where a bot/tool authenticates under its own user account and, out of pure courtesy for the community, asks users to prove their identity before allowing them to use the bot/tool. For bots/tools that actually perform edits as the user, OpenID would be useless.
Also, I think Wikipedia acting as an OpenID consumer would be bounds more useful than acting as a provider. That's not to say that having both wouldn't be a good idea, but the consumer side of it should definitely be a priority. Think of sites now like StackOverflow, where creating an account is as simple as pressing a few Accept buttons. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Thomas Gries <m...@tgries.de> wrote: > > > Ryan wrote: > > > > > > > Any OpenID consumer, whether WMF or not, would be able to use us as an > > > authentication provider. > > There is currently no option, but an option (to restrict serving OpenIDs > > to certain > > consumer domains eg. only to our domain) could be implemented. > > > > > I see no reason in doing so. If third parties want to allow Wikimedia as a > provider, I don't see why we'd object. > > - Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
