So, I'm happy to see that commercial wiki provider WetPaint now supports OpenID for logging into their site. It's great to have more wiki services supporting this single sign-on standard.
A couple of nits, though: first, I logged in with my normal OpenID, http://evan.prodromou.name/ , which delegates to http://certifi.ca/evan . WetPaint's OpenID service used the delegated URL, which is just wrong. They need to fix that. The delegate is the "backend", and users should be able to change it over their lifetime. If relying parties store that backend URL instead of the "main" OpenID URL, that undermines the process.
Second, they have a signup page after the validation, and it has a lot of fields that could be pre-populated using the OpenID Simple Registration extension. I shouldn't have to type in my preferred user name, real name, or email address. That information is already available through my OpenID provider.
Other than that, it seems to work OK. I'm glad that it exists at all, but I wish it was a smoother user experience.
tags: wetpaint wiki openid sso
Wikispaces and SourceForge
I haven't already mentioned the announcement that SourceForge has implemented Wikispaces wikis for every project on their site. I think that's great news for the wiki community, and probably a good thing for SourceForge users.
I feel churlish mentioning it, but it has to be said: with hundreds of available WikiEngines, the vast majority of which are Open Source, and many of which are hosted on SourceForge, why did SourceForge go with a commercial service provider? It doesn't seem like they've justified that decision very well.