On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)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/
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation