I finished up the changes in the OpenID extension for MediaWiki, so I rolled out the extension on Wikitravel, and enabled login by any OpenID-aware identity server. Hopefully as more MediaWiki sites start enabling OpenID, we'll have real single-signon between wiki sites. More news at Wikitravel:16_August_2006.
It's nice that Wikitravel is joining up with some of the other big sites embracing this technology (see https://www.myopenid.com/directory for more). We really depend on getting contributions from all over the Internet, and breaking down barriers on login and configuration really helps out a lot.
tags: openid mediawiki wikitravel single sign-on
Identity people
One of the interesting things about working with OpenID for Wikitravel has been getting back into the world of identity and authentication. I used to work for a company called Securant (now part of RSA), and my main job was working on an XML-based security interchange format called SAML. It was a pretty exciting gig -- working with some of the most interesting people in the security biz, and in XML.
I've been looking over the Whodentity list and seeing lots of names from the SAML TC: Bob Blakley, who I mentioned before; Jeff Hodges; and Eve Maler, who was perhaps the best cat-herder I've ever seen. It's interesting to see the same folks involved in SAML and other security/identity subjects 5 years later.