On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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? >
Most likely.. we just rolled out SUL2 [1] in July, so most users probably had the same experience you did when using the 2013 site. Hopefully for 2014, everything will just work for most users. > > Risker/Anne > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > [1] - SUL2: Updates to how CentralAuth logs users in across projects, part of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems project
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