The python-social-auth project welcomes contributions 
<https://github.com/python-social-auth/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md>.  If 
you could work with them to add OAuth2 support for the MediaWiki backend, that 
would be great.

> On Mar 3, 2026, at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Tweed via Wikitech-l 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 at 21:42, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm using the python-social-auth library.  As far as I can tell, it only 
>> supports OAuth 1.
>> 
>> https://python-social-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/mediawiki.html
> 
> That does look to be the case and I'm not sure that it implements
> cookie support directly. It may be possible to use requests.Session
> alongside this to implement the cookie support, as it uses
> requests_oauthlib.OAuth1 to handle the authentication.
> 
> More generally we are open to helping improve community libraries,
> either through code review or more active contribution.
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