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Bug 19424 - OpenID-login is missing
Summary: OpenID-login is missing
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: webplatform.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: infrastructure (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Schepers
QA Contact: public-webplatform-bugs list
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Reported: 2012-10-10 09:14 UTC by Karsten Hoffmeyer
Modified: 2013-01-09 00:07 UTC (History)
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Description Karsten Hoffmeyer 2012-10-10 09:14:13 UTC 
I have seen "complaints" about this in a forum. I decided to report this to you, since I also believe that it should be possible for docs.

There is a extension to MediaWiki providing this functionality:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
Comment 1 Jonathan Garbee 2013-01-09 00:02:52 UTC 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40068

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40067

Both are relevant issues to getting the existing module patched so we are able to use it.
Comment 2 Ryan Lane 2013-01-09 00:07:26 UTC 
Is this a request for OpenID as a provider, or as a consumer? The two bugs I link to are for using openid as a provider, but not as a consumer.

We could probably add OpenID as a consumer right now. OpenID as a consumer is honestly confusing for most end-users (technical or not) and also complicates things, because if we can to use OpenID as a means to tie in other applications into mediawiki's auth, then we have to consider people may want to log into mediawiki as a consumer, then we'd need to somehow authenticate them to mediawiki via OpenID, then to the other application via OpenID.