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
> 
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