SubscribeHelp with WordPress and MediaWiki integration
As a user of co.mments, you register for an account on the co.mments.com Web site so we can let you track comments wherever you go. If you want to start a new topic of discussion on the blog, you register on blog.co.mments.com. If you want to add content to the Wiki (with attribution), you register on wiki.co.mments.com.
What … a … pain.
I don’t like multiple registrations. People I know don’t like multiple registration. It’s annoying and confusing and wastes time. There must be a better way.
Does anyone have experience with WordPress and MediaWiki? I need a solution so users can register exactly once, and have accounts in all three services.
Posted by Assaf in General on Saturday, March 11th, 2006. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Eran Sandler
March 12th, 2006 at 1:53 am
Have you checked out OpenID (http://openid.net/)?
I don’t know if there is an integration with Wikimedia.
There is something for WordPress (http://www.scatmania.org/archives/2005/08/06/openid-for-wordpress/) though I don’t know it state and if it even works on WP 2.0.
Assaf
March 12th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
I looked at OpenID before. I like how they kept it simple, decentralized and focused on the users. It’s everything Passport/Liberty are not.
But it won’t unify the comment tacking, blog and wiki code into a single login. Just by adding OpenID, users would still have to register in three different places.
Eran Sandler
March 19th, 2006 at 2:52 am
I know OpenID is not that complete, but it saves the registration and authentication part.
A simple implementation would be to use it to authenticate (perhaps supplying a few servers on the web so people won’t have to look for them too much) and when a user authenticates using OpenID on co.mments.com for the first time it will automagically creates the a user for them with default settings (if you have a per user settings thingy).
The same goes for a wiki and the blog and so on.
Unless I am missing something, that’s how it should work.
Assaf
March 19th, 2006 at 3:56 am
The problem I’m trying to solve is how not to authenticate three different times, and how not to login three different times.
Eran Sandler
March 20th, 2006 at 1:56 am
I see.
So the OpenID only solves one problem, which is to register but it doesn’t have a single sign on feature that will not require one to reauthenticate (similar to Liberty/Passport).
But I guess its relativly easy to think of a solution using a cookie so one can authenticate once and until the credentials expires it won’t need to reauthenticate. The main problem is how to implement this without too much overhead and with the fact that OpenID is fully decentralized.
Assaf
March 20th, 2006 at 2:01 am
Exactly.
I can share one cookie and login screen across all three services, but there’s some that needs to be written and tested.
Singpolyma
March 29th, 2006 at 12:44 am
Not auth + not login three times can easily be solved with openID if you are on the same server… All three places can have an openID login area, and once your ID has been verified against the openID server ONCE a cookie is stored by co.mments.com that is visible ANYWHERE on the domain to your scripts… then, until that expires, they are loagged in in three places. You associate the necessary data with their OpenID URL in the backend and voilà — your OpenID pross script would have to hook to the WP/MW backends for their stuff, but it’s all SQL (at least WP is… i THINK MW is?) so that’s not too hard…
Singpolyma
March 29th, 2006 at 1:12 am
OpenID with MediaWiki :: http://www.openidenabled.com/software/mediawiki/
Edulix
April 6th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I’m developing an OpenID plugin for wordpress aiming exactly to the same thing as you, flawlesly integrate Wordpress & Mediawiki. The wordpress plugin is mostly working, only some small things are left to do for the first version, and there’s already an openid plugin for mediawiki which I only need to patch a bit to make them integrate.
I’m talking with the nice people of openidenabled.com which will give me hosting shortly, if you want you contact with me in edu.lix AT gmail DOT com
John
December 13th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I have integrated many external web2.0 sites into my mediawiki. It is just a matter of programming extensions. Examples are the AJAX unubtrusive rating bar and Joomla.
The openid should not be a problem, as the MW software is very flexibile. If you need help, check out the IRC of MW
good luck
John
Ciu Leren
January 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I am using the openID for MW. It is quite simple. Follow the manual at the openID extension at mediawiki.org