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.