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+Now that google supports using thier profiles as OpenIDs, that can be used
+directly to sign into ikiwiki. Just use, for example, 
+<http://www.google.com/profiles/joeyhess> . Tested and it works. --[[Joey]] 
+
+## historical discussion
+
 when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error:
 
 Error: OpenID failure: no_identity_server: The provided URL doesn't declare its OpenID identity server.