On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 11:24 PM Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get hundreds of these a year (my user name, Nathan, seems to be a popular > target). It would nice to be able to use some sort of multi-factor > authentication, which is actually supported by OAUTH. However, it seems > most projects (including en.wp) restrict use to accounts with elevated > rights. Can anyone explain why these tools can't be made more widely > accessible? >
Lack of usability around recovering a lost second factor (and not losing it in the first place) AIUI. Right now only developers can reset the second factor; that does not scale to all Wikimedia editors. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
