What does SUL2 mean? It doesn't seem to be documented at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SUL …
Thanks, Mike On 3 Oct 2013, at 21:43, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > Please note that it is especially important to change your passwords on the > Wikimania wikis where you have accounts. These are non-SUL wikis and > changing your SUL password will not effect a change on the Wikimania 2013 and > 2014 wikis. Even if you never intend to edit those wikis again, your > password and account could still hypothetically be compromised. > > wikimania2013.wikimedia.org and wikimania2014.wikimedia.org are both part of > SUL, so most users should use their CentralAuth account to login. They are > slightly odd in that we don't give you a cookie for those sites when you > initially login on another wiki, but with SUL2, you *should* get logged in > when you visit the site. > > However, since SUL2 is relatively new, and you wouldn't get automatically > logged in when visiting the site with the original SUL, I'm guessing many > users visited the wikimania sites for the first time, logged in with their > centralauth username and password, and continued on their way, which is one > of the conditions where the local wiki stores the password hash used to > initially create the account. So there is probably a higher number of users > here who were notified, than on some of the other wikis. > > > I agree with others that the risk is very, very small; nonetheless, it is not > non-existent. > > Totally agree. > > > Risker/Anne > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
