On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:40 AM rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
interesting, never thought about it. i found an entry on stackexchange confirming what you said. additionally it states that oauth is not for authenticaiton. oauth's purpose is to access users resources from some resource provider, while openid_connect should be used to authenticate. does openid_connect work with wikipedia and is it the best option currently?
OpenID Connect uses OAuth 2 and Wikipedia only supports OAuth 1 currently. We have a custom authentication endpoint that works in a similar way to OpenID Connect: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OAuth/For_Developers#Identifying_the_user