#indiewebcamp 2012-05-15

2012-05-15 UTC
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Loqi
[http://twitter.com/xtof_fr] Discussion inspirante avec @dumeny #OwnYourData #indiewebcamp - followup 2012-05-22 @QSParis http://t.co/zfbDbqu8 #quantifiedself
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Loqi
[http://twitter.com/xtof_fr] #OwnYourData par @t : votre site devrait être être la source et le hub de tout ce que vous postez en ligne. #FuturDuWeb #indiewebcamp
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tantek
yeah - still too complicated :(
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tantek
but at least it's a working prototype for discussing things
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tantek
arronpk - there's also http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/05/webkit-offers-early-preview-of-web-intents/ that errantly claims that "Mozilla and several other companies have joined forces" with a link to an almost year old article that's subsequently been debunked: http://benlog.com/articles/2012/02/09/a-simpler-webbier-approach-to-web-intents-or-activities/
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aaronpk
curous
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aaronpk
s/uo/iou/
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tantek
yeah I don't know why the WIRED author is exaggerating the level of agreement vs. not
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aaronpk
interesting, I just got an email from Christopher at mozilla pinging me again about Persona
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aaronpk
I totally dropped the ball on that last time he emailed
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aaronpk
apparently they're getting close to launching now
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tantek
what does that mean? launching? browserid.org works now
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tantek
and is in use on DevMo, Mozillians.org, and a few other sites.
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singpolyma
"launching" usually means "media spinning" or similar
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aaronpk
s/launching now/announcing live integrations
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Loqi
aaronpk meant to say: apparently they're getting close to announcing live integrations
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aaronpk
singpolyma: yea, that
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tantek
aaronpk - any solution to the problem of inconsistent identities between the IndieAuth and OpenID plugins?
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tantek
when I sign in via IndieAuth, it creates a new account for me, instead of associating with the account that OpenID signin already created for tantek.com
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tantek
kinda sucks if a URL isn't just a URL for signing in
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tantek
different plugins != different logins
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tantek
or at least should not
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tantek
(this is all on indiewebcamp.com of course)
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aaronpk
yea, unfortunatley it's mostly a problem with the OpenID extension. when you logged in with OpenID previously, it then prompted you to choose a MediaWiki username
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aaronpk
I made the IndieAuth one use the domain name as the username, which is the way I would have expected it to work, and will prevent that kind of thing in the future
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aaronpk
unfortunately i'm not quite sure how to handle tying the two accounts together in MW
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tantek
oh damn - ok so it's a user flow problem with OpenID - argh
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tantek
can you have dots in MW usernames?
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aaronpk
it hasn't complained yet :)
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tantek
so is the OpenID plugin gone/disabled, or does it still work as a fallback?
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tantek
but essentially - everyone has to make new accounts right?
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aaronpk
I disabled it because it would have been nearly impossible to integrate/fallback with it
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tantek
perhaps we can rel=me link the User pages together in attempt to provide some coherency
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aaronpk
the plugin didn't replace the login form, it made its own, so it was kind of weird
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tantek
I would expect to be able to simply associate a URL with an existing login
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aaronpk
hmm I could possibly do that, I would have to change the username of the existing accounts when you first log in with IndieAuth
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tantek
perhaps it would be easier to update the IndieAuth plugin to do that?
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tantek
rather than worry about OpenID
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tantek
just sucks to make everyone create yet another account
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tantek
I mean, that's kind of what we're trying to avoid right?
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tantek
and this is a real world use case that others will run into
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tantek
others considering incorporating IndieAuth / Web Sign-in
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aaronpk
seems pretty specific to this mediawiki openid plugin tho
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tantek
no the general problem of there being existing accounts on a system
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aaronpk
ah yes
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tantek
and having indieauth have a way for users to associate their URLs with them
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tantek
rather than have to create a new account
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aaronpk
well it's definitely the responsibility of the indieauth consumer (in this case, the mediawiki plugin) to handle that appropriately
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tantek
right
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aaronpk
ok I should be able to do some hacking to make the MW plugin find the OpenID accounts, and it'll have to change the username on those to the domain-name usernames
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tantek
any way to preserve the "Contributions" history etc.?
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aaronpk
that would take care of it, since they're linked by internal database IDs
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aaronpk
and I should be able to use http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete to merge your two accounts and anyone else who has logged in with indieauth so far
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tantek
cool, so two steps then. 1. fix the indieauth login so it can link to existing accounts upon first login with indieauth.
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tantek
2. manually merge the accounts of people who have already used indieauth to login
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Loqi
!calc 2. manually merge the accounts of people who have already used indieauth to login
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aaronpk
yep, that should do it.
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tantek
cool. let me know when (1) is working :)
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tantek
and then I can help with identifying the dup accounts