Wikipedia+R&E
Connecting wikipedia to the worldwide Research and Education community
[edit]See presentation here.
What
[edit]- Make it easy to login to wikipedia using the digital identities that researchers and educators already have.
Why
[edit]- Lower the bar of entry for R&E & K12.
- Support wikipedias anti-fraud activities with high-value identities for key contributors.
- Access to information about contributor home organization and affiliation while preserving anonymity of contributors.
- Fewer passwords to be responsible for.
How
[edit]- Clean separation between wikipedia infrastructure and identity infrastructure.
- Minimal impact on wikipedia UI
- Invite federations to join wikipedia identity hub instead of having wikipedia join multiple federations.
- Integration-point for things like orcid.org
Goals
[edit]- Face2face meeting in DC or CA in the spring
- Build PoC together with 2-3 federations during Q1-Q2 2013
The team
[edit]- Leif Johansson (NORDUnet)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/leifjohansson http://blogs.mnt.se
- Lucy Lynch (Internet Society)
- Ken Klingenstein (Internet2)