On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 11:24 PM Nathan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I get hundreds of these a year (my user name, Nathan, seems to be a popular
> target). It would nice to be able to use some sort of multi-factor
> authentication, which is actually supported by OAUTH. However, it seems
> most projects (including en.wp) restrict use to accounts with elevated
> rights. Can anyone explain why these tools can't be made more widely
> accessible?
>

Lack of usability around recovering a lost second factor (and not losing it
in the first place) AIUI. Right now only developers can reset the second
factor; that does not scale to all Wikimedia editors.
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