Connecting wikipedia to the worldwide Research and Education community

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See presentation here.

What

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

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

The team

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  • Leif Johansson (NORDUnet)

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

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