[Wikitech-ambassadors] SUL (Single User Login) deploy to all wikis on Thursday July 11th
Summary: On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login service to make the login experience for users more streamlined. More detail: To address the shortcomings of the current Single User Login (SUL) system, the Platform team is making significant changes to the way that CentralAuth logs users into other wikis on login: * Users will be logged into a new, centralized domain when they login to any public WMF wiki with a global account. This domain is login.wikimedia.org * Global accounts will no longer see the "Login Success" page after login, instead they will be redirected back the article where they came from. On the article page, we will transparently attempt to login the user to all of the sister projects, instead of relying on the images on the login success page. * All of the public WMF wikis will use the central wiki to check anonymous user's logged-in status, and transparently log the user in if they are centrally logged in. (Thanks to Chris Steipp for the above language.) You can see the full rollout plan for this here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/SUL2#Rollout_Plan -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] SUL (Single User Login) deploy to all wikis on Thursday July 11th
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Summary: > On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login > service to make the login experience for users more streamlined. > > More detail: > To address the shortcomings of the current Single User Login (SUL) > system, the Platform team is making significant changes to the way that > CentralAuth logs users into other wikis on login: > > * Users will be logged into a new, centralized domain when they login to > any public WMF wiki with a global account. This domain is > login.wikimedia.org > * Global accounts will no longer see the "Login Success" page after > login, instead they will be redirected back the article where they > came from. On the article page, we will transparently attempt to login > the user to all of the sister projects, instead of relying on the > images on the login success page. > * All of the public WMF wikis will use the central wiki to check > anonymous user's logged-in status, and transparently log the user in > if they are centrally logged in. > > (Thanks to Chris Steipp for the above language.) > > You can see the full rollout plan for this here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/SUL2#Rollout_Plan > Added to the next edition of Tech News. To avoid having users think login is broken or there's a security issue, we should probably make sure special Village Pump announcements go out where we can. -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] SUL (Single User Login) deploy to all wikis on Thursday July 11th
> Summary: > On Thursday July 11th we will be enabling a new centralized login > service to make the login experience for users more streamlined. Note: For the avoidance of doubt, this is not for the grand user unification work, only the improved login experience. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
