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SUL finalisation
Resolve any remaining clashing user names, so that in the future every user may have a single username to log in with on all
Wikimedia projects
Group:
Platform
Start:
February 2013
End:
April 2015
Team members:
Kunal Mehta
Chris Steipp
Bryan Davis
Brandon Harris
Dan Garry
Backlog:
#sul-finalization
Lead:
Keegan Peterzell
(product owner)
SUL finalisation
unified user accounts across all
Wikimedia projects
History
Originally, Wikimedia wikis operated completely independently from each other, with separate user accounts and passwords for each wiki.
CentralAuth
was created to let users log in with the same credentials across multiple wikis, but as the wikis operated independently for years there were thousands of clashing accounts, i.e. cases where different people had registered the same name on different wikis. These clashes prevent those affected from logging in with the same name across all wikis.
Project Goal
The goal of the SUL finalisation is to forcibly rename any clashing user accounts so that every single user has their own single unified login across all Wikimedia sites.
Backlog
Necessary prior code/ops steps
Done
: ACTION: ?? to run the pass0 script to clean up data; updated stats review
Done
: PG's
AccountAudit
extension deployed and $wgCentralAuthAutoMigrate enabled on 2013-05-10 (allows gradual automatic merging by users on login).
Done
by Legoktm, September 2014:
also create a global account upon login
when all local accounts belong to the user.
In progress
: ACTION: ?? to
run the migrateAccount script for non-conflicting users
, in order:
Done the bulk
Merge
10k users who only exist on one wiki, and are not attached
Done the bulk
Merge
18k incorrectly unattached users
and 3k LUGM
Done, but effects to be verified
Iterate over all
unattached accounts with email and, where all accounts for a username have the same (confirmed) email, merge them all
Send emails to
make 50k global accounts claim all their local unattached accounts
(gives 28 days time)
Email the (up to) 3.3M unattached, email unconfirmed accounts (sendConfirmAndMigrateEmail.php)
[Timing depends on how many] Automatically create some more global accounts (
migrateAccount.php --auto
Figure out other cases which need no manual intervention
Next steps (parallel):
Hoo?
– Review lego's patch for 4
Depends on stats DB
Done
Done
: Finalize the global rename user tool and get deployed
Note that renamed users MUST have their cookie invalidated.
Next step:
Done
Legoktm, CSteipp, Hoo man - Merge
and test on beta
Done
CSteipp, Hoo man, Legoktm - deploy on cluster and test. Planned for July 9th.
Done
We need the ability to re-run metrics like
these
Setup DB for tracking unattached user in the cluster
Ops:
rt #7775
CSteipp? - Scripts to synchronize user tables
Done
: Add sufficient unit tests to CentralAuth to prevent regressions
Plenty more could be added, but we should get notification of major breakage now.
Done
: Run pass0 again, to ensure localnames and globalnames are accurate
Legoktm - See updates at
bugzilla:67350
In progress
: Write & deploy new code for auto-login-to-alternate account.
("You logged in as 'Foo' but your username has been automatically changed to 'Foo~Barwiki' - please use this in future")
Started as
Gerrit change 61074
- Abandoned
Done
Patch by bd808 to handle most cases:
Gerrit change 147020
Done
Core hook and hook implementation by CSteipp to handle case where winner later renames, so no global account conflicting with the looser's old name exsits
Gerrit change 156887
Gerrit change 156947
Notification page once you login with your old name
Gerrit change 148420
In progress
: Write & deploy clashing-user-rename-and-globalise script.
Note that a single user with multiple local accounts that clash with a global account need to be renamed to a single global account named after the “home wiki” per the same code that
Special:MergeAccount
uses
Desirable prior code/ops steps
In progress
: Write & deploy global user merging so two global users can be merged together
What to do when two clashing local instances under the global accounts?
Done
Deploy
UserMerge extension
to all wikis
Done
Update extensions to be compatible -
bug 67758
Done
Fix major bugs in Ex:UserMerge
Done
Enable UserMerge for all wikis in beta, test
Next steps:
Legoktm - quash bugs found during testing in beta
Done
CSteipp - Merge global merge, disabled by config
In progress
: Write & deploy a tool for local ‘losing’ users to check a proposed new account name (check against clashing global and local users, and also against the global user account name rules) and request it be done.
Done
bug 68886
Request global account rename from home wiki before forced SUL name change
bug 68924
Create special page to manage global rename request queue
Depends on Global Rename tool
Next steps:
Bd808 is working on patches
Project pages
/Global account merge
Global rename
older implementation
(historical, outdated)
User documentation for tool
SUL Audit
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
July 2014
September 2014
See also
SUL documentation:
m:Help:Unified login
, official docs
Extension:CentralAuth
phab:T37707
– Complete unification of all accounts to SUL
m:Single login specifications
(historic, notes)
Admin tools development
phab:project/view/39/
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