Extension:OAuth/en

The OAuth extension implements an OAuth 1.0a server in MediaWiki. It allows third party developers to securely develop applications ("consumers"), to which users can give a limited set of permissions ("grants"), so that the application can use the MediaWiki action API on the user's behalf.

Requirements

 * OAuth relies on the object cache for temporary tokens and sessions. This should work as long as cache configuration settings are sane. (Older versions required Memcached explicitly.)
 * Currently, only mysql and sqlite database backends are supported
 * If the mediawiki installation is private (i.e. users need to log in to have read access), Special:OAuth will need to be added to the white list.

User rights
To assign a permission to some group, for example to sysops, you add following line to :