On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:

Summary: On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login service to make the login experience for users more streamlined.

More detail: To address the shortcomings of the current Single User Login (SUL) system, the Platform team is making significant changes to the way that CentralAuth logs users into other wikis on login:

• Users will be logged into a new, centralized domain when they login to any public WMF wiki with a global account. This domain is login.wikimedia.org
• Global accounts will no longer see the "Login Success" page after login, instead they will be redirected back the article where they came from. On the article page, we will transparently attempt to login the user to all of the sister projects, instead of relying on the images on the login success page.
• All of the public WMF wikis will use the central wiki to check anonymous user's logged-in status, and transparently log the user in if they are centrally logged in.

(Thanks to Chris Steipp for the above language.)

You can see the full rollout plan for this here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/SUL2#Rollout_Plan

Added to the next edition of Tech News.

To avoid having users think login is broken or there's a security issue, we should probably make sure special Village Pump announcements go out where we can.

Update on deploy date:

We are going to delay this rollout until Monday July 15th so we can iron out some last minute issues. We want the first experience anyone has with this to go smoothly so we think the small delay is worth it.

If you have informed any Village Pumps of this deploy, please do me a favor and update them with the new date :-).

Thanks for your understanding,

Greg

<quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2013-07-09" time="15:32:48 -0700">

Summary: On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login service to make the login experience for users more streamlined.