Django MediaWiki Authentication

This is a simple authentication plugin for MediaWiki that uses the Django authentication app as a backend.

It requires Django 1.5.3 or later with JSON session serializer, which has been the default since 1.6.

Currently tested again MediaWiki 1.27.1.

Installation

• Copy django-media-authentication/ to extensions/ and rename to AuthDjango/.
• Change the configuration variables in AuthDjango.php to suit your needs.
  • LinkToSiteLogin should be Django's login page URL.
  • LinkToWiki should be the subdirectory that the wiki is in, including the trailing /.
• Give the following permissions for your MediaWiki database user: GRANT SELECT ON `django_db_name`.`auth_user` TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost' GRANT SELECT, DELETE ON `django_db_name`.`django_session` TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost'
• Add the following line to your LocalSettings.php: require_once('extensions/AuthDjango/AuthDjango.php');
• Run update.php to update the database schema: cd ./maintenance/ && php update.php

Note that while new accounts and previous logins are linked together using Django's user id, the first time a Django user goes to the wiki where they have an existing account the two will be linked by username. So either ensure that all existing MediaWiki users have the same usernames as their Django accounts or go through and manually add entries for their accounts into the newly-created authdjango table in the MediaWiki database.