Scratch that. (More seriously: Yes. I'm not after scratching. I'm after recovering access.)

Change 986196 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@master] Update UI strings to use recovery rather than scratch

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/986196

We seem to mix calling them codes and tokens too...

Does codes make more sense than tokens?

Codes is likely technically less correct but "tokens" is a term whose usage I still have not fully understood after all those years (too many meanings when not being a native speaker)

I suspect it's the idea of "scratch cards" (lottery or gift cards etc)... Where you scratch/use them once, and that's it. It's definitely not obvious though.

FWIW, GitHub calls them "recovery codes" too.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Two-factor_authentication will need updating

Change 986196 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@master] Standardised UI strings to use "recovery codes"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/986196

Change 989846 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_41] Standardised UI strings to use "recovery codes"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989846

Change 989847 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_40] Standardised UI strings to use "recovery codes"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989847

Change 989848 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_39] Standardised UI strings to use "recovery codes"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989848

Change 989832 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@master] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989832

Change 989846 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_41] Standardised UI strings to use "recovery codes"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989846

Change 989847 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_40] Standardised UI strings to use "recovery codes"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989847

Change 989848 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_39] Standardised UI strings to use "recovery codes"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989848

Change 989832 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@master] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989832

Change 989853 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_41] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989853

Change 989881 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_40] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989881

Change 989854 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_39] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989854

Change 989854 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_39] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989854

Change 989881 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_40] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989881

Change 989853 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@REL1_41] Fix a few remaining occurances of recovery token

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/989853

In T354031#9443188, @Reedy wrote:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Two-factor_authentication will need updating

As will all local help pages, and :

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Two-factor_authentication

Screen shots on pages such as:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OATHAuth

And of course all the translations of such.