Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/AuthManager/Feedback/reply (6)

As someone who is helping a corporation use MediaWiki, I think Cindy's take on this should be viewed as representative of those who use MediaWiki in large organizations.

The argument is often made here (on MW.o) that if you want more control over authorization than MW gives you, then you should use a CMS. This argument ignores a sizable number of users who have decided on and use MW because of the workflows and culture that it enables that a CMS is not designed for.

Cindy works on a large corporate wiki farm and has the ability to implement a lot of what she wants. It would be good to ensure that her insights are addressed here.

She may be conflating Authz and Authn in ways that the WMF doesn't need to worry about for Wikipedia, but for those of us without a sizable userbase to do the work that WMF relies on community for, it makes sense to be sure that the design of the code can accommodate our needs at these early stages.