- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:18:02 -0500
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: public-wiki-dev@w3.org
Did we want to still experiment with openid? I just signed up for one. If so we need to add an extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID -Alan On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Sandro Hawke wrote: > > > Some time ago I wrote: > http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/User_Account_Management > > I haven't gotten much feedback, but there's been a little, and I've > thought about it some more, and here's my conclusion: > > 1. Wiki users may choose their own username. It is suggested, > but not > required, that they use their real name (as below), in a form > which is likely to be unambiguous within the the larger W3C > community. It is okay to use WikiNames. Use of given names > (alone) or nicknames is generally discouraged, since they it > they > may well become ambiguous when a new person joins the group. > > 2. There should be a wiki page for each member of the group, using > their real name, redirecting (#REDIRECT) to their user page. > Thus > group members can be referred to like: > > [[Sandro Hawke]] > [[Peter Patel-Schneider]] > [[Markus Krötzsch]] > > as, for example, in the OWL minutes [1]. These redirect pages > can be set up by the users themselves, or by anyone else with > write access to the wiki. > > 3. Looking forward, we should try to get OpenID working on > MediaWiki, > and w3.org should allow users to enumerate OpenIDs for > themselves > (on [2]). Then, users should be encouraged (and perhaps > eventually required) to authenticate themselves to the Wiki > using > OpenID. That will allow identities to be linked across W3C > services, so the Wiki will know who is in a Working Group, etc. > > This "policy" will be adopted on a WG by WG basis. I expect OWL will > adopt it, and others are free to follow it or come up with something > different. > > Thoughts? Concerns? > > -- Sandro > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Teleconference.2007.11.21/Minutes > [2] http://www.w3.org/Systems/db/memUser >
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