On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org> 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/
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