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I haven't had a chance to look in detail but from some quick googling it sounds like maybe Openhatch might have a Django plugin for mediawiki auth? openhatch/oh-mainline#580

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It's now super easy to integrate things from https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth into Zulip; would it make sense to hook mediawiki into python-social-auth?

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Note this has moved to https://github.com/python-social-auth

And there is already a MediaWiki backend at http://python-social-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/mediawiki.html

Is there more that needs to be done on the MediaWiki/Wikimedia side?

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@jayvdb good question! There is work that needs to be done on the Zulip side to add a MediaWiki auth backend, but I think that could be done with dozens of lines of code. However, we haven't added a second social auth backend before, so it may be a bit tricky. I'll take a look and probably some combination of myself and @umairwaheed can make this happen.

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Yeah, given that they already have a backend for this, the integration apparently looks easy, but like Tim said we haven't added a new backend using Social Auth so can be tricky.

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#7234 has some useful work if someone wants to work on this again down the line, though one may be better off basing one's work on the GitHub auth backend code we have in production.

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See also #10618 for the most recent PR on adding a new auth. This is to show that the complexity of the task is much less than > a year ago.

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I'm going to close this as wontfix, since I'm not sure Mediawiki actually wants it, or whether anyone else would use it. With our current python-social-auth integration, it'd be ~50 lines of code to do I think, so it's mainly a question of there being a user whether we do it. I don't think we'll ever do it because this ultra-old issue exists, so it should be closed :).

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