We have a closed mediawiki for registred users only. From another site (moodle) we'd like to link one special user "academy" to the wiki-site, without the user having to login manually. It might be a link - within the also secured moodle lesson - where the user "academy" would automatically login to the wiki-site. "academy" has readonly-rights.
We have mediawiki 1.18 and the WgetAuthentication plugin doesn't work.
Is there another way to accomplish my task?
You can log in via the api, see API:Login. However that requires more than just a link (but still something entirely accomplishable via ajax if the moodle site is on the same domain).
Otherwise you might be looking at writing a custom AuthPlugin or at the very least a custom extension using the UserLoadFromSession hook.
Hi, thanks for your reply. I studied the API material, but I can't build it by myself. So I'll have a workaround going in distributing a password for the readonly user "academy".
