https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66699

--- Comment #19 from Chris Steipp <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Krinkle from comment #17)
> Right, we only set the cookie at log in time and it expires after 30 days
> regardless of whether the user actively uses their account (at which point
> they'd randomly find themselves logged-out after 30 days, not in a middle of
> a browser session due to the session cookie, but the next time they re-open
> the browser).
> 
> I believed we had this already (I don't recall having to authenticate
> anywhere in the last few months for Wikimedia wikis, so either something
> else is extending it or I just forgot I had to do it once).
> 
> Same for Google, Facebook, etc., for those I'm quite certain it is being
> extended automatically.

There was something on some private wikis that is based on activity, although
so far I haven't been able to find out who set it up or how.

But doing an automatic extension once a day seems like a much better solution,
and as you point out, not that difficult.

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