So I definitely see the use case for OpenID as a provider (and as long as everybody is aware that OpenID is not OAuth, I'm fine with that), but I'm not a bot/tool developers. I am, however, a frequent user of the Internet, and I find it extraordinarily surprising that Wikipedia is one of the few sites still out there that doesn't have some sort of OpenID login. My main question is that if we're really taking the time to deploy Extension:OpenID on WMF wikis, why not put in the extra ten seconds to also allow consumers. People keep going on about how the account creation process is ugly and needs to be re-designed, and yet with OpenID it takes three clicks to register an account, and especially with the recent version push Thomas did, it's better than ever.
Some sites, like Stack Overflow, allow you to add alternate OpenIDs, > which helps for temporary or permanent downtime. E:OpenID does this as well, not to mention you can always set a password and login traditionally. *--* *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 11:40 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-02-23 12:37 AM, "Matthew Flaschen" <mflasc...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > > On 02/22/2013 11:32 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > > > What ive always wondered is what happens if your oid provider goes > > > under/otherwise dissapears. I imagine that means you lose your user > account > > > all across the internet, which is a scary thought > > > > Some sites, like Stack Overflow, allow you to add alternate OpenIDs, > > which helps for temporary or permanent downtime. > > > > Matt Flaschen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > Presumably you would have to do that before the downtime though as you > wouldn't be able to login once downtime starts. So one could easily be > caught off guard. > > -bawolff > _______________________________________________ > 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
