On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:40:25AM -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
On 01/24/2012 09:13 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
Given gerrit already works with openid I was wondering if the wiki could support the same. It seems there is an extension[1], and it also seems it's packaged for fedora[2]. Has anyone looked into this and would it be a desirable addition?
[1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID [2]: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5922
My major concern with the wiki is keeping us from having spammers ever get accounts on there. We have enough trouble gardening our own work, we'd get buried if we had to manage spam pages.
I would reckon that OpenID would give a way for spammers to come in, unless we limited the OpenID servers we worked with, which would sort-of be against the reason for having OpenID in the first place.
But I'm very open to other thinking, just unsure how it would be implemented. I have no experience with mediawiki + openid myself, but maybe giving it a go and monitor it would be good enough for now.
Possible downsides: - Spammers use openid to spam Possible upsides: - More open to new people - People can use a single account for both gerrit and the wiki Since the wiki edits are also shown on IRC I think spam would be caught fast enough and in the worst case the change could be reverted.