Last modified: 2014-01-06 04:08:41 UTC

Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Wikimedia migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator. Bug reports are handled in Wikimedia Phabricator.
This static website is read-only and for historical purposes. It is not possible to log in and except for displaying bug reports and their history, links might be broken. See T61631, the corresponding Phabricator task for complete and up-to-date bug report information.
Bug 59631 - Login with Facebook
Login with Facebook
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
:
Depends on: 9604
Blocks: 29079
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2014-01-04 02:33 UTC by Dan Jacobson
Modified: 2014-01-06 04:08 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

See Also:
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments

Description Dan Jacobson 2014-01-04 02:33:04 UTC
Other sites have "Login with Facebook".
Wikipedia should too!

At least leave this open as a long term goal 'LATER'.
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2014-01-04 02:46:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Other sites have "Login with Facebook".
> Wikipedia should too!

Why?

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

Anyway, this no doubt a dupe of requesting to be able to login using any openid provider
Comment 2 Dan Jacobson 2014-01-04 03:04:13 UTC
All I know is the user sees a big blue block,
    <input id="wpLoginAttempt" tabindex="6" class="mw-ui-button mw-ui-big mw-ui-block mw-ui-primary" type="submit" value="Log in" name="wpLoginAttempt">
that gets them looking at it twice as it looks like something from Facebook.
Then many of them probably start looking around the rest of the page for the real "Login with Facebook" button.
Comment 3 Liangent 2014-01-04 18:21:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Other sites have "Login with Facebook".
> > Wikipedia should too!
> 
> Why?
> 
> Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
> 
> Anyway, this no doubt a dupe of requesting to be able to login using any
> openid
> provider

It's said that "Facebook is not an OpenID provider". Has this changed recently?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1827997/is-facebook-an-openid-provider
Comment 4 Tim Weyer 2014-01-04 20:08:06 UTC
Wikimedia is not a social network and it doesn't need an even simpler registration for vandals.
Furthermore, it wouldn't make registration simpler for users because it is already very uncomplicated.
Comment 5 Dan Jacobson 2014-01-05 10:37:02 UTC
All I said was "Login with Facebook", not all the other side/unrelated issues in all the above other above comments.
Comment 6 db [inactive,noenotif] 2014-01-05 12:38:13 UTC
The icon should not be loaded from the facebook servers to avoid leaking of private information, when only visiting wikimedia sites.

FYI: There is [[mw:Extension:Facebook]].
Comment 7 This, that and the other (TTO) 2014-01-06 04:08:41 UTC
Not really a site request.

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.


Navigation
Links