https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66978
Bug ID: 66978
Summary: OAuth: Dialog for granting an app permission should
clarify or link to what "basic rights" are
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: OAuth
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
When an application requests the ability to edit on my behalf there is an
unordered list with the rights.
But when an app requests basic rights there is only a plain text message saying
app "X" requests basic rights. I have no idea what that means. As a developer
I'm hoping that means reading. As a user, I'd think "basic" includes editing as
well, and I really don't want to grant certain apps that permission (e.g. the
kind of tools that abuse OAuth as a way to do OpenID).
Digging back into overview of what these rights mean was hard. After granting
access, I found the special page via the Preferences page, then "manage access"
which listed "Basic rights" and had a linked list item to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuth/grants#useoauth
That's where I finally found the information.
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