Improve/Clarify OATHAuth messages
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	Reedy
	Nov 12 2016, 2:16 AM

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	"oathauth-step1-test": "Download a mobile app for two-factor authentication (such as Google Authenticator) on to your phone.",
	"oathauth-entertoken": "Enter a code from your mobile app to verify:",
	"oathauth-auth-ui": "Please enter verification code from your mobile app",

Maybe less of an issue on the step1 message... But "from your mobile app" is crappy.

You don't *have* to use a mobile app...

They also don't mention the one time use passwords that can be used...

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
en.json: Improve oathauth-scratchtokens	mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth	REL1_41	+1 -1
en.json: Improve oathauth-scratchtokens	mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth	REL1_40	+1 -1
en.json: Improve oathauth-scratchtokens	mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth	REL1_39	+1 -1
en.json: Improve oathauth-scratchtokens	mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth	master	+1 -1

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T150564 Improve/Clarify OATHAuth messages
		Resolved		Reedy	T150868 Expand recovery code instruction with advice to mark which codes you have used

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Reedy created this task.Nov 12 2016, 2:16 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptNov 12 2016, 2:16 AM

Reedy mentioned this in T150565: Support physical OATH/OTP devices.Nov 12 2016, 2:21 AM

Krenair subscribed.Nov 12 2016, 4:10 AM

Parent5446 moved this task from Backlog to User Experience on the MediaWiki-extensions-OATHAuth board.Nov 13 2016, 7:22 AM

Platonides subscribed.Nov 13 2016, 11:38 PM

Reedy merged a task: T150958: De-emphasize "mobile app" because there are other ways to use AOTH.Nov 18 2016, 12:48 AM

Reedy added a subscriber: TheDJ.

Users have also identified this problem (and a similar problem with the main help page on meta) and have started a guide that is more oriented towards laymen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_2FA. We might be able to take cues from that.

TheDJ added a subtask: T150868: Expand recovery code instruction with advice to mark which codes you have used.Nov 23 2016, 11:10 PM

MediaWiki:Oathauth-step1-test is missing a trailing "."

Reedy added a project: MediaWiki CodeJam Dec 2023.Dec 6 2023, 12:51 PM