Allow login and editing directly from Primerpedia

[waldyrious]

Will need server-side component, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats#JSON_callback_restrictions (state-changing actions aren't possible when using JSON in callback mode)

[waldyrious]

Update from Zurich Hackathon's OAuth tutorial session:

To use OAuth with client side apps, one can either:

• Ask users to request an OAuth token themselves (is this what Wikidata: The Game does?)
• Otherwise, the developer can request a token and use it in the app.
  • This is recommended against for client-side apps, since the token has to be placed in the source code for it to work, and client-side apps, by their nature, have the source exposed. So someone could meddle with it, i.e. use the token to perform other actions.
  • If that happens, the responsibility would fall on the tool author; the app would be revoked and probably won't get authorized again.
  • That said, there’s no technical way to detect whether the app is using this mechanism (except of course inspecting the code), so the only issue is if someone malicious actually does something fishy with the token.

[waldyrious]

For future reference, some useful information was collected in https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/issues/25

[waldyrious]

Revisiting this issue, I'm starting to think that having a way to edit the content may be beyond the scope of this tool. I mean, we are stripping out some content like references and templates, which an edit to the text could potentially conflict with (e.g. removal of a bit of text that had a reference at the end).

If we instead show the actual source code with all the relevant, then the experience is not too different from editing on Wikipedia itself anyway, which would make the added complexity not be worth it.

Considering the above, plus the technical issues listed in previous comments, I decided to close this as "wontfix".