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| | 2 | +== Notes == |
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| 2 | 4 | This extension is experimental. It should not be used by anyone in a production environment. |
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| 4 | 6 | The purpose of this extension is to act as a sort of identity helper for other non-MediaWiki services that might be |
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| 8 | 10 | This implementation is based on Wikia's Chat module AJAX functions[1], but tries to be more general. |
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| | 12 | +== Caveat == |
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| | 14 | +This entire extension might be a bad idea, if there is an easier way to do all this with OpenID. It's not clear to me |
| | 15 | +yet if we can get something as seamless with OpenID, as easily. At least this is a basis for the kind of communications that |
| | 16 | +OpenID will need, we can shoehorn this into the OpenID extension later. |
| | 17 | + |
| | 18 | +The only reason I'm pushing forward with this now is that we need SOME sort of service to go forward with etherpad and chat |
| | 19 | +experiements. |
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| 10 | 22 | -- Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk@wikimedia.org> 10 Aug 2011 |
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