I heard three different views on SSO wrt MediaWiki/WikiPedia so far:
1) The different Wikipedia sites (e.g.
en.wikipedia.org and
de.wikipedia.org) should require a user only to log on once. Once
logged on the user should be known across those Wikipedia sites (and
only those).
2) A MediaWiki installation (e.g. in an enterprise) would like the
MediaWiki user management subsystem to participate in an SSO
environment (e.g. an enterprise single-sign-on system).
Auth_Plugin.php and various LDAP projects seem to have made some
headway there.
3) A Wikipedia user (and any MediaWiki user) should be able to "bring
their own" identity, which MediaWiki software should recognize. The
advantage of this is that it includes the previous two items as
special cases -- and because there's nothing special about Mediawiki
with respect to logins: every website has that problem, and would
like the problem to go away.
I'm interested in #3, specifically using URL-based personal digital
identities (such as the URL of their blog). How would one practically
go about doing this? [I'm new to how the wikipedia software projects
typically work out]
Some background is here:
http://cis-berkman.editme.com/
http://openid.net/
http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/Main_Page
Thank you,
Johannes Ernst
http://netmesh.info/jernst