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WMCH spike test for the WSOAuth+PluggableAuth MediaWiki extension
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This Task is to remember that we have to do some research and documentation and tests on the WSOAuth MediaWiki extension, and its dependency PluggableAuth:

This should require a working day.

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valerio.bozzolan changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Spike".

I'm working on a script to find out which users in the wiki has a nickname different from the Meta-canonical one.

The interesting part is that, to prevent account usurpation, with this extension we have to:

  • trust all users just via their username match

or:

  • manually approve one-by-one (discover if you are very-very sure that one nickname on members.wikimedia.ch correspond to the same human with the same nickname on Meta-wiki)

Both are obsolete workflows.

I'm discussing this here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:W7mw4zwj9gfx2af6

That's a reliable extension that only deserves a few more hours of development to achieve our use case. The developer was really very kind and helpful with me, and also willing to be allocated for these jobs through the related company.

Having a company behind it it's another strong point from my perspective to ensure stability to the chapter.