Wikipedia+R&E

Connecting wikipedia to the worldwide Research and Education community

See presentation here.

What

• Make it easy to login to wikipedia using the digital identities that researchers and educators already have.

Why

• 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

• 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

• Face2face meeting in DC or CA in the spring
• Build PoC together with 2-3 federations during Q1-Q2 2013

The team

• Leif Johansson (NORDUnet)

http://www.linkedin.com/in/leifjohansson http://blogs.mnt.se

• Lucy Lynch (Internet Society)
• Ken Klingenstein (Internet2)