Auth systems

Rationale
There are several specific issues with the existing, authentication methods used on the WMF sites: Additionally, several new features for authentication and authorization have been requested: The Platform Engineering team has decided to address several of these issue and features in a set of sprints over the next few weeks.
 * Increasingly, 3rd party cookies are disabled in browsers
 * Several bugs related to CentralAuth's single sign-on system
 * OpenID
 * OAuth
 * Cross-wiki editing (Mobile, VisualEditor)

Timeline
See Auth systems/Spring 2013

Documents

 * Auth systems/SUL2 - Description of improved SUL setup
 * Auth systems/OAuth - Plan for implementation of OAuth