General authentication improvements for MediaWiki
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	Feb 26 2015, 8:47 PM

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There are a number of authentication related projects that have been requested by various teams and users to improve the process of logging into MediaWiki wikis both by direct user interaction (form auth) and from external interfaces (OAuth, API).

These various projects taken individually are difficult to promote as a major focus, cross team project, but when bundled together provide a more compelling story about a focus on improving the authentication experience for a wide variety users and removing roadblocks for other projects.

T86869: Support a nice sso experience with MediaWiki's OAuth
T88083: Mobile apps users should not be shown captchas when creating accounts
T30085: RFC: Allow user login with email address in addition to username
T74469: OAuth: Authorisation should not fail because you don't have an account on central wiki
(task needed) Update look, feel and functionality of Special:UserLogin

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Status	Assigned	Task
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Open	None	T90925 General authentication improvements for MediaWiki
Open	None	T86869 Support a nice sso experience with MediaWiki's OAuth
Declined	None	T88083 Mobile apps users should not be shown captchas when creating accounts
Open	None	T30085 RFC: Allow user login with email address in addition to username
Open	None	T89459 Modernize MediaWiki authentication system (AuthManager)
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bd808 created this task.Feb 26 2015, 8:47 PM

bd808 raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

bd808 updated the task description. (Show Details)

bd808 added projects: MediaWiki-Core-Team, Epic.

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The work in progress for T89459: Modernize MediaWiki authentication system (AuthManager) should make all of these tasks easier to achieve.

bd808 added subtasks: T86869: Support a nice sso experience with MediaWiki's OAuth, T88083: Mobile apps users should not be shown captchas when creating accounts, T30085: RFC: Allow user login with email address in addition to username.Feb 26 2015, 8:53 PM

Another possible sub-project would be T76103: Createaccount API should support username validation without having to try to create an account which requires some work on the account creation flow. This isn't strictly authentication related but it does fall under a slightly wider theme of making use of MediaWiki by authenticated users easier by removing a small hurdle in new account creation for wikis where multiple account name filtering systems are in use.

• Tnegrin updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 2 2015, 5:51 PM

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bd808 added a subtask: T89459: Modernize MediaWiki authentication system (AuthManager).Mar 13 2015, 5:58 PM

bd808 edited projects, added MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager, MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth; removed MediaWiki-Core-Team.Apr 8 2015, 11:23 PM

Tgr triaged this task as Medium priority.Jun 29 2015, 7:07 PM

Ricordisamoa subscribed.Aug 2 2015, 4:06 AM

Krenair subscribed.Aug 26 2015, 1:12 PM

Tgr reopened subtask T89459: Modernize MediaWiki authentication system (AuthManager) as Open.Aug 27 2015, 7:08 AM

• Mholloway subscribed.Mar 18 2016, 4:37 PM

tom29739 added a parent task: T134004: Confirmation dialog for 'OAuth authenticate only (no api access)' right is not needed.Apr 29 2016, 8:52 PM

Tgr removed a parent task: T134004: Confirmation dialog for 'OAuth authenticate only (no api access)' right is not needed.Apr 29 2016, 11:25 PM

• JMinor changed the status of subtask T88083: Mobile apps users should not be shown captchas when creating accounts from Open to Stalled.Apr 28 2017, 5:25 PM