Hi all, OAuth support was added to MediaWiki two years ago, and has seen some significant uptake. (In case you are not familiar with it, OAuth[1] is a feature through which users can allow tools to act in limited ways through their account, without giving out their password. See Crosswatch[2] for an example.)
Tools need to be whitelisted to get access to OAuth; this was done by an ad-hoc group of developers, without any explicit rules of what to accept. The plan was always that eventually the community would do it in a self-governing way, similar to how bot requests are handled (except that OAuth tool permissions are managed globally), but no one got around to actually arrange it. So let's change that! I set up a discussion page on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/OAuth_handover Your help is needed to turn this into a functioning policy. Please follow up there to keep the discussion centralized. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth [2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/crosswatch/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
