openid on the wiki?

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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On 01/24/2012 09:13 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

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