On 3 October 2013 16:43, 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. > > >> > > That's odd, Chris - I distinctly remember that I could not log in to either 2013 or 2014 Wikimania wikis but was required to create a new account. Perhaps that was before SUL2?
Risker/Anne
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