Hi there,
Drupal has a distributed authentication system
(
http://drupal.org/node/312) that allows any holder of an account from
a participating site to log into another participating site using his
original login (preventing namespace collision via user@sitename for
the other sites).
Given the vast number of Wikipedia account holders, might not this
system be useful to MediaWiki sites? Adding in some PKI to prevent
"remote.spammers.biz" from entering the network (requiring
participating sites to "register" with a "auth.mediawiki.org") and
ideally making this protocol in concert with, and thus compatible with
Drupal (why not after all; the creation of a standard cross-server
authentication mechanism would be nice, no?), the smaller sites could
benefit from the speed bump to vandals that registration implies
without actually deterring potential contributors.
Any thoughts?
-RS