OAuth

OAuth is a protocol for securely granting to third-party tools a limited capability to use your wiki user account.

There are separate pages about different aspects of OAuth in MediaWiki:


 * – extension which implements an OAuth server in MediaWiki
 * – user documentation for OAuth on Wikimedia sites
 * – developer documentation for creating tools that can interface with a wiki running the OAuth extension

Obsolete

 * – Wikimedia Foundation's 2013 plans around OAuth development. These resulted in the feature described by 
 * – obsolete information about OAuth