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Make 2FA section in Special:Preferences more prominent
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Some overlap with T401771: Merge password and 2FA management into a single Special:AccountSecurity page when OATHAuth is installed and T402427: Move Special:AccountSecurity into core, have OATHAuth contribute to it.

@Risker's suggestion

Screenshot 2026-05-01 CUWiki pref.jpg (507×1 px, 110 KB)

I do seriously urge you to bold the entire two-factor authentication line, perhaps putting it under a separate section (with password reset) as "Account security". Account security is, frankly, a much bigger deal than most of the other stuff on that page. The fact that the two settings directly related to account security are separated by two relatively unimportant settings is a significant factor in the blindness to the line

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Change #1281719 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@master] HookHandler: Move section for onGetPreferences

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281719

Change #1281717 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/core@master] WIP: Preferences: Add an Account Security section

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281717

Need to fix the section so it doesn't flow so vertically...

Reedy changed the task status from Open to In Progress.May 2 2026, 12:59 PM

Change #1281717 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Preferences: Add an Account Security section

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281717

Change #1281719 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/OATHAuth@master] HookHandler: Move section for onGetPreferences

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281719

Change #1281780 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/core@master] mediawiki.special.preferences.styles.ooui.less: Make accountsecurity section more compact

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281780

Change #1281780 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] mediawiki.special.preferences.styles.ooui.less: Make accountsecurity section more compact

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1281780

Reedy claimed this task.

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Improvements in the right direction until we (maybe) move Special:AccountSecurity into MW core, and passwords onto it.