Interwiki identity standard

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An interwiki identity standard fuses a standard wiki URI for users, with a interwiki link standard for attribution links.

It would be a major component of a wikitext standard and may be a step towards a person DTD to unambiguously identify a given person and claims regarding, or made by, that person.

It has been proposed by both MediaWiki and GetWiki developers. The most likely candidate is a jabber.org ID. Users would login with this, and it would replace the IP number or Mediawiki-based service account, both of which have serious identity dispute problems, to self-assert an identity.

Only factions could deal with collective or alleged identity, however.

See en:Wikinfo:interwiki identity standard for a debate on the issue's relevance beyond Wikipedia. See also en:GetWiki_talk:Corpus for a fictional pan-GFDL text corpus RecentChanges log that illustrates some of the problems that necessarily arise without such a standard.