Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID extension for MediaWiki

Bah you beat me to it. I was just debugging an openid extension I wrote based on the openid patch. Hehe. I will check it out and let you know how it goes. Pat Hi, all. I wanted to let everyone know that I've checked in an OpenID extension into MediaWiki Subversion (in extensions/OpenID). The extension lets users log in with an OpenID (http://www.openid.net/) instead of a username and password. An OpenID is a special URL that people can use to log in to a Web site. The extension also lets users who have an account on the wiki log in to other OpenID-aware Web sites with their wiki user page as their OpenID. Typical uses: * Single-signon between multiple affiliated wikis and other sites. We have 12 wikis that work together for Wikitravel, and users can login to different Wikitravel wikis with their home wiki account. * Single-signon across the Internet. OpenID isn't that well known ''yet'', but theoretically someone could login to their OpenID identity server in the morning and not have to login to another site for the rest of the day. I know that Wikimedia developers have some plans for single-signon between WM sites; this extension would allow single-signon for contributors to log into external sites like Wikia, WikiHow, Wikitravel, and other MediaWiki installations, as well as OpenID-aware services like LiveJournal and Moveable Type. And, of course, vice versa. Please let me know if you a) install this software and b) get any problems. I'd especially appreciate work on the UI layout, which is a little klunky. I'd also love to get some acceptance criteria for installation on Wikimedia sites. I plan on hacking on this quite a bit between now and Hacking Days at Wikimania. ~Evan ________________________________________________________________________ Evan Prodromou <evan(a)prodromou.name> http://evan.prodromou.name/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l