Re: Ludism.org wikis are back up

[Ben Finney <ben+yahoogroups@...>]

Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Ben
> Finney<ben+yahoogroups@...> wrote:
> > Ability to authenticate with an OpenID, instead of yet another
> > site-specific identity?
> 
> Probably not going to happen, unless you want to write an OpenID
> module for OddMuse. (What other wikis even use OpenID?)

MoinMoin, ikiwiki, MediaWiki, and many others can authenticate via
OpenID instead of site-specific identities. (The ability often needs to
be specifically enabled, though.)

> Of course, you don't need to log in at all to make changes.

Oh, I hadn't realised that. (IIRC an account was necessary to edit on
the previous incarnation.) Thanks!

> CC BY-SA probably will happen, because of recent changes in the
> Wikipedia community and GNU that make cross-licensing possible. See
> the discussion here:
> 
> http://www.ludism.org/mentat/RonHaleEvans

Good to know, thanks. I wish you good fortune in resolving that.

> The games themselves are under whatever licenses the designers choose,
> of course.

Yeah :-/ I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to get a bunch of good games
and have them professionally printed and sold, but the licenses of many
of them are far too restrictive for that, and contacting every single
copyright holder individually for permission just isn't worth it.

> > I'd love to participate, but those two are major hurdles for me.
> 
> I'd love to say we'll miss you, but until you show us what you can do,
> we won't. ;)

Heh, that's fair enough :-)

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