[Open-bio-l] Fwd: OpenID enabled on most wikis

Chris Fields cjfields at illinois.edu
Fri Mar 18 16:03:54 UTC 2011


(Thinking about it, this probably should have gone to open-bio-l, so here it is)

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu>
> Date: March 18, 2011 11:02:55 AM CDT
> To: Bioroot <root-l at open-bio.org>
> Subject: OpenID enabled on most wikis
> 
> Just to post that OpenID is now enabled on most wikis and is the only way new users can login to edit (the BioLib wiki is a notable exception, Pjotr wanted to manually approve new user accounts).  The old login link is still present but new account creation is not allowed except by sysadmins.
> 
> I already posted this to the news blogs, but I suppose we need to add something else to the wikis indicating this for new users?  
> 
> chris





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