See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:22 AM, James Montalvo <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I know the WMF did a lot of work recently consolidating user accounts, and
> I'm wondering if anyone can provide me with some information on how to do
> it in my much simpler case. We have about 10 wikis setup independently
> which we'd like to make all use the same user table ($wgSharedDB,
> $wgSharedTables). Wikis have different sets of users, though many users are
> active on multiple wikis. A user's ID on one wiki is not likely to be the
> same on another, but usernames are the same throughout.
>
> Is there an existing project or script that can sort this out? Since a
> person's username is consistent across wikis it should be something fairly
> simple like:
>
> 1. Read user table for all wikis, create $newUserArray giving each username
> a new unique ID
> 2. For each wiki:
>   1. Loop through the ~17 tables with usernames and user IDs (except the
> user table) and:
>     1. For tables with username and id columns: replace the id with the id
> from $newUserArray
>     2. For tables with just username (I don't think there are any): No
> change
>     3. For tables with just id: Lookup the ID in the user table, use
> username to get new ID from $newUserArray
>   2. Update user table IDs (or skip this step in most wikis since we'll
> only be using one wiki's user table)
> 3. Create new user table on the one wiki with the shared user table
>
> Does anyone see any issues with this? Any suggestions?
>
> Below is the list of tables I see (for MW 1.23, which we're on currently)
> that have usernames and/or user IDs. Is there any specific info I need for
> any of these?
>
> archive:            ar_user, ar_user_text
> external_user:      eu_local_id, eu_external_id
> file_archive:       fa_user, fa_user_text
> image:              img_user, img_user_text
> ipblocks:           ipb_user, ipb_by, ipb_by_text
> logging:            log_user, log_user_text
> old_image:          oi_user, oi_user_text
> page_restrictions:  pr_user
> protected_titles:   pt_user
> recentchanges:      rc_user, rc_user_text
> revision:           rev_user, rev_user_text
> uploadstash:        us_user
> user:               user_id, user_name
> user_former_groups: ufg_user
> user_groups:        ug_user
> user_newtalk:       user_id
> user_properties:    up_user
> watchlist:          wl_user
>
> Thanks,
> James
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