[OpenID] wiki and email

[Peter Williams]

Out of interest, I used myopenid to access a newly created wiki userpage at  http://wiki.openid.net/Special:Emailuser/Homepw.

MyOpenID's phonebased user auth worked perfectly, and the wiki nicely registers my profile, including the sreg email.I could leave material (tho its no longer obvious that an openid-identified user is authoring material, and authorship history links back to the mediawiki user identity page rather than my formal identity page at myopenid.)

I tried to email a wiki user (myself), using the menu option provided. The system whines that I need to be logged in (which I am? Surely...having just made a page edit ) and have a valid email address (which sreg delivered to my profile, evidently).

(a) disaapointed that the flagship backoffice demo does not better showcase openid for 1.material authorship 2 handle identity pages

(b) It was a little disappointing that I could not originate an email to a wiki user, on whose sreg emailaddress the mediawiki had relied. What I want from the wiki is the assurance that the emailaddress was introduced by an OP, as I really want to meta-rely on the wiki own reliance on the OP, earlier, for the binding of the email address to the openid/wiki-userpage.

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Dick Hardt
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:31 PM
To: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] What election?


On 2-Dec-08, at 5:26 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:

> On 12/03/2008 03:12 AM, Chris Messina:
>>
>> Now that I am a dues-paying member of the foundation, I am
>> interested in the notion of accountability. Where are the answers
>> to Eran's questions? Why hasn't there been more information about
>> the election produced? And how, if at all, does the board intend to
>> remedy this situation?
>>
> <sarcasm>I suggest to subscribe to the private board list</sarcasm>
>
> :-) Sorry, I simply couldn't refuse that one...I know it's bad-
> mouthing...


actually, subscribing to board at openid.net would provide many answers
-- board-private at openid.net would not have any of the answers to
Eran's questions.

minutes from the meetings are here:

http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Board

Yes, the ease with which one can find this information needs to be
improved.

-- Dick



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