Wikia

OpenID Support

Keverets January 17, 2012

Rather than support Facebook Connect, Wikia (and thus lyrics.wikia.com) should support OpenID. It's an open standard, and even has a mediawiki plugin available.

It's sad to see the number of sites that will allow access by only one company in a proprietary fashion.

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Log in with Facebook is a great idea, it accelerates registration process and login, but the implementation of OpenID shows how wikia project is rising very well!

January 28 by Peppedogmax
It's sad to see always "Log in with Facebook" on almost every website. Same with Twitter/G+ and alike. Not only that not everyone gets the privacy issues that come with that but also the necessarity isn't always given. However, I would always prefer OpenID over the above-mentioned. It gives the user some choice what the service he tries to login with gets what kind of information about him.

January 23 by MusicAddict
I think the reason OpenID isn't used is just because the cost to implement it is fairly high (since providers are so bad at sticking to the standard) and the return is relatively low since very few people realize that they can use it. ;)
Since Wikia has significantly different user-accounts (because the accounts span all of the wikis), the MediaWiki extension wouldn't work out of the box, but it would definitely be a good starting point if we go down that path... thanks for the tip!
It would be cool to have OpenID, but I haven't heard many people pushing for it (and after having implemented it at a previous startup, I'm not to anxious to subject myself to that again).
It's great to see users blogging their ideas though :) It's a good way to get more ideas circulating around & hopefully get some of them to gain momentum.
Thanks!

January 23 by Sean Colombo