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Starting with MediaWiki 1.27, there are new authentication and session management frameworks in core<ref>https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-May/085725.html</ref><ref>[[mw:Manual:SessionManager and AuthManager]]</ref>
= New School =
If you're running at least [[MediaWiki]] 1.27<ref name="wikireport">Check your version, and more, for free at https://freephile.org/wikireport</ref>, you can take advantage of Cindy Cicalese's [[mw:Extension:PluggableAuth|Extension:PluggableAuth]] and [[mw:Extension:OpenID_Connect|Extension:OpenID_Connect]]. Using these extensions, you can have people login to your wiki using their Google account; and other '''Single Sign-On''' setups.