Use Wikipedia Mobile app as 2FA?
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	Reedy
	Dec 6 2023, 1:06 PM

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Not sure we'd be able to implement this in a generic way (easily) for third party MW installs, but GitHub for example allow a logged in session on their mobile app to be used as a form of 2FA.

With the official Wikipedia app, this is maybe something we could do (eventually)...

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Reedy created this task.Dec 6 2023, 1:06 PM

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Reedy moved this task from Backlog to New 2FA Methods on the MediaWiki-extensions-OATHAuth board.Dec 6 2023, 1:06 PM

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Thanks for this idea

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