Evan Prodromou wrote:
I'd think that, since single-signon between
wikis is a feature useful
only for a minority of registered Wikimedia users (how many actually
log into more than one Wikimedia wiki, ever? 10-20%, maybe? how many
log into more than, say, 5 wikis? Or log into more than one wiki on a
regular basis? 2%? 0.2%?), it'd be a good political idea to minimize the
It is my experience that people who learned English as a second
language often edit on regular basis both their language and English
Wikipedia. I have no idea how much of them are there, but certainly
more than 2%.
Also, it is likely that whatever the percentage is, it will increase
after single sign-on is introduced. We want to encourage people to
upload to Wikimedia Commons...
I think that if we use Interwiki prefixes on the
UI side, OpenID
becomes that much easier. A user could login to French Wikibooks as
/wp:en:User:EvanProdromou/ or whatever, and the UI translates that
into the right OpenID URL
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EvanProdromou) and goes through
the OpenID two-step to get credentials checked. Under the covers, the
OpenID stuff would get worked out right, but we could use simpler
Interwiki strings for the UI.
I could agree with this however. I see no problem on the user side
with prefixes.
Hoi,
Authentication is a hot topic, one of the more recent interesting bits
of information can be found here:
It is not YADIS or OpenID but I think that it may point to thinks that
are in the future, but it is certainly interesting particularly when you
realise the connection to Yabber clients for Gtalk.
Thanks,
GerardM