On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 3 October 2013 16:43, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>  On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> 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.


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[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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