On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Ryan Lane<rlane32(a)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.laugher(a)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.