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