- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:36:40 -0400
- To: public-wiki-dev@w3.org
What is our current state on synchronizing w3c wiki accounts/ACLs with
w3.org accounts and ACLs? I'm still manually flipping bits on
Special:Userrights whenever someone joins or leaves the WG. Or, more
often, when they bug me because I forgot to do it.
The quick and dirty solution seems to be this:
Have a cron job which looks at the DBWG tables (or is there a
machine-readable version of [1]?) and uses the e-mail address as a
key to set group-membership in the wiki database tables. We would
want to turn on e-mail-verify in the wiki, and tell people they
have to use the same e-mail address.
I know there was something much more automatic and clever being worked
on, but since it still doesn't work for me in firefox, I don't have a
lot of faith in it. I'm not sure if it's supposed to meet the same
need.
Also, I see that there's been a big upgrade to the OpenID extension [2]
so maybe it's usable but I see it STILL doesn't have Auto-login, which
makes me think it's still not usuable. (Having to log in many times a
day drives me crazy. I don't know about you.)
-- Sandro
[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=41712
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
Received on Thursday, 14 August 2008 19:37:39 UTC