On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
OAuth isn't really recommended for this either (cases where you're not actually taking any action on a Wikimedia wiki) for security reasons (which someone else could probably explain better.
Because OpenID on Wikimedia wikis is still a while away, Chris implemented a method to handle secure user name authentication via OAuth: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93859/
This has been recently implemented by WikiMetrics, for example: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102618/