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On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Paula paula.rm@gmail.com wrote:
Hello again, May I have the contact of somebody from the developing team under the OAuth extension?
I have some questions to ask them and as this a maillist on lots of different topics regarding wikimedia I think it would be better if I can contact them directly.
Thanks for your time.
For what its worth, technical discussion about implenting extensions is in scope for this mailing list (imo), so its perfectly fine if you ask here, (Of course you should also feel free to email people directly if you prefer that).
So does this mean that there is no chance my implementation with Latch will also be available for MediaWiki users?
Just to be clear, do you mean MediaWiki or Wikimedia users (Wikimedia = Wikipedia and related sites. MediaWiki = anyone who uses the MediaWiki software)?
You can make any sort of MediaWiki extension you want, even if it duplicates another extension, and people may use it. For Wikimedia, probably only one extension would be chosen. Wikimedia also generally has very picky standards for using extensions, and it can be a lot of work (and politics!) to get an extension used on Wikimedia wikis. The existing 2 factor auth extension is (AFAIK) only used on wikitech, which is kind of different from being used on other Wikimedia wikis, so most wikis have no 2 factor auth solution deployed to them.
I would definitely reccomend coordinating with people working on similar extensions.
Pine said:
I for one would be interested in moving that extension out of beta and having an option in site configuration to require some or all users to have two factor authentication enabled.
I think you misunderstand the extension status bar on mw.org. That is self-reported by the author, and the requirements are not consistently enforced. The contents of this status really has nothing to do with if the extension is actually used on Wikimedia wikis, so "taking it out of beta" would basically mean making a (rather meaningless) edit to the extension description page.
--bawolff