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Big Pile o Issues

  • When loging in with an openID URL for the first time you are prompted for a "nickname," is is not obvious that at that moment you are bing given the option between linking to an existing account or creating a new one.
    • But you aren't! It's only to create a new account. It would probably be a good idea to document that locally in MediaWiki:Openidlogininstructions. --Evan 14:54, 2 September 2006 (EDT)
  • I don't see any way to break the linkage between an openID URL and wiki acocunt once it's been made; which is a pain if you have created a new account by mistake.
    • There isn't yet; agreed that it's a needed feature. --Evan 14:54, 2 September 2006 (EDT)
  • I was surprised that the openID login doesn't prefill the login with my last used ID.
    • It should; there's some feature in "modern" browsers that should fill that in automatically. --Evan 14:54, 2 September 2006 (EDT)
      • True, but doesn't MediaWiki pre-fill its own login page with your last-used username? --ryanlee 15:34, 2 September 2006 (EDT)
  • A "what is this" link that addresses wiki users is needed;
    • MediaWiki:Openidlogininstructions. --Evan 14:54, 2 September 2006 (EDT)
      • The instructions referenced above don't appear to resolve to wikitext when displayed in context - is this intentional? --ryanlee 15:48, 6 September 2006 (EDT)
  • Special:OpenIDLogin's "... verification error ... already logged in" mode needs rewording.
  • Needs the checkbox for keeping me logged in after I login via OpenID
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Things Ryan Patched

That he remembers...

  • Made the returnto query argument work for OpenID based login so users aren't just redirected to the main page.
  • Logging in naively takes everything from sreg and procedes to quash whatever preferences may have changed for this wiki, replacing it with either the sreg value or deleting it altogether. This is harsh. I've removed the deleting email portion and suspect the entire code around that area really needs to be rewritten to be more gentle.
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Notes on Various OpenID Identity Servers

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WikiTravel

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myopenid.com

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Misc Linkage

  • List of identity servers
  • OpenID's Home
  • Subversion of the extension we are useing.
  • Original announcement of the extension we are using.
  • search google for openID mail at mediaWiki
  • Dan Libby of Videntity.org's OpenID patch to media wiki (an alternative)
    • I guess it's an alternative if you're willing to use the unsupported, obsolete MW version 1.5.8, don't care about being a server as well as consumer, and are willing to strip out all the account creation checks. The OpenID extension in Subversion is what's going to be used on Wikitravel, wikiHow, Wikia, and Wikimedia sites. --Evan 14:59, 2 September 2006 (EDT)
    • Ditto to the above; when I first started hunting for MediaWiki OpenID support, the videntity patch was dominant on Google, which is a surprise since it's quite behind the pace of MediaWiki development. --ryanlee 15:34, 2 September 2006 (EDT)
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