When an application is approved for all wikis of a wiki family, the text of the authorization dialog is
in order to complete your request, <application> needs permission to perform the following actions on your behalf on all projects of this site:
"All projects on this site" (mwoauth-consumer-allwikis) is confusing since projects tend to be separate sites.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T86869 Support a nice sso experience with MediaWiki's OAuth | |||
| Open | None | T75062 OAuth permission screen (authorization dialog) needs redesign for better usability and comprehension | |||
| Open | None | T151516 Improve OAuth grant messages | |||
| Open | None | T95133 OAuth authorization dialog text specifies the grant scope (current wiki / all wikis) in a confusing way |
Mmm... I believe this is a duplicate of an existing task, although I cannot find it. :/
We could reword "All projects on this site" into: "All sister projects connected to {{SITENAME}}"
T598: MediaWiki OAuth dialog text is unclear and sounds more scary than it is, which was marked as duplicate of T91825: Improve text of OAuth authorization dialog. Since there is nothing Phabricator specific in this dialog, I think we should merge this task to T91825 as well.
Ideally this should say something like "all Wikimedia wikis" or "all Wikimedia projects" but not sure to do that in a generic way.
CentralAuth just uses a message default value (centralauth-groupname -> "The Wikimedia Foundation") which non-WMF projects are expected to override, but then CentralAuth was never designed to be actually used by non-WMF projects.
Blocked by T91825: Improve text of OAuth authorization dialog with 'normal' priority assigned to Tgr; hence setting priority here to low.
We could just override the messages in the WikimediaMessages extension.
Add them to the list here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/+/d54db64724d36e3b82ff5d3ab9541c3ec6785b34/includes/Hooks.php#121
And copy the messages, with a "wikimedia-" prefix, and changing the text appropriately (I suppose it should say "Wikimedia wikis" instead of "all projects of this site"?), here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/+/d54db64724d36e3b82ff5d3ab9541c3ec6785b34/i18n/wikimediaoverrides/en.json
Here's an example change that did the same thing for another extension's messages: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/+/652557