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!
[1]: 2016 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
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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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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Once again great stuff from the community tech team. Many thanks :-)
James
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
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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Sound's great :)
On Aug 22, 2017 12:13 PM, "James Heilman" jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Once again great stuff from the community tech team. Many thanks :-)
James
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
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!
[1]: 2016 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_
Survey/Results
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Cool!
Hasive
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Nabin K. Sapkota < nboycreationnepal@gmail.com> wrote:
Sound's great :)
On Aug 22, 2017 12:13 PM, "James Heilman" jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Once again great stuff from the community tech team. Many thanks :-)
James
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
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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That's awesome. Thanks to the tech team!
On Tuesday, August 22, 2017, Nurunnaby Hasive nch@nhasive.com wrote:
Cool!
Hasive
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Nabin K. Sapkota < nboycreationnepal@gmail.com javascript:;> wrote:
Sound's great :)
On Aug 22, 2017 12:13 PM, "James Heilman" <jmh649@gmail.com
javascript:;> wrote:
Once again great stuff from the community tech team. Many thanks :-)
James
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Gnangarra <gnangarra@gmail.com
javascript:;> wrote:
thats a great outcome, thanks to those that have made this happen
On 19 August 2017 at 07:19, Todd Allen <toddmallen@gmail.com
javascript:;> wrote:
Great to see this, thanks!
Todd
On Aug 18, 2017 5:15 PM, "Danny Horn" <dhorn@wikimedia.org
javascript:;> 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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Neat feature.
Who has access to the logs, and for how long will the logs be retained?
Thanks, Fae https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LGBT+ http://telegram.me/wmlgbt
The only log is a temporary debug log, which we're using to investigate some bug reports. They're only accessible to people with shell access to the production servers -- Foundation staff, and people who have signed non-disclosure agreements. We won't retain them for longer than ninety days.
Danny
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Neat feature.
Who has access to the logs, and for how long will the logs be retained?
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