thats a great outcome, thanks to those that have made this happen
On 19 August 2017 at 07:19, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Great to see this, thanks!
Todd
On Aug 18, 2017 5:15 PM, "Danny Horn" dhorn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
The Community Tech team has released a new security feature this week: LoginNotify, which gives you a notification when someone tries and fails
to
log in to your account. This project was wish #7 on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey [1].
Here’s how it works:
If someone tries and fails to log in to your account from a device or an
IP
address that hasn’t logged into your account recently, then you’ll get an on-wiki notification at the first attempt. For a familiar device or IP address, you’ll get an on-wiki notification after 5 failed logins. This
is
on by default, but you can turn it off in your preferences; you can also turn on email notifications.
It’s also possible to turn on email notifications when there’s a
successful
login from a new device or IP address. This is turned off by default, but it might be useful for admins or other functionaries who are concerned
that
their user rights could be misused. This means that you’ll get a notification every time you log in from a new device or IP address.
We want to take this opportunity to thank Brian Wolff for all his work in writing the underlying extension for this feature.
There’s more information on the feature on the Community Tech project
page
on Meta, and please feel free to post questions on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/LoginNotify
PS: If you’re wondering what happened to the Syntax Highlighting beta feature that we deployed a couple weeks ago and then had to roll back: it’ll be back soon!
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