Summary: On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login service to make the login experience for users more streamlined.
More detail: To address the shortcomings of the current Single User Login (SUL) system, the Platform team is making significant changes to the way that CentralAuth logs users into other wikis on login: * Users will be logged into a new, centralized domain when they login to any public WMF wiki with a global account. This domain is login.wikimedia.org * Global accounts will no longer see the "Login Success" page after login, instead they will be redirected back the article where they came from. On the article page, we will transparently attempt to login the user to all of the sister projects, instead of relying on the images on the login success page. * All of the public WMF wikis will use the central wiki to check anonymous user's logged-in status, and transparently log the user in if they are centrally logged in. (Thanks to Chris Steipp for the above language.) You can see the full rollout plan for this here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/SUL2#Rollout_Plan -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
