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
 * - extension which uses a remote wiki (with the OAuth extension installed) for authentication of local accounts
 * - 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