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Creating new account does not sign in to other wiki websites

djow2019

Hello,
I’m working closely with a wiki project, Wikidata, and I’ve noticed some inconsistent behavior with account creation. To explain the behavior, I will describe the different scenarios.

Signing in to MediaWiki will automatically sign you in to WikiData.
Signing in to WikiData will automatically sign you into MediaWiki.
Creating an account from Wikidata will automatically sign you into MediaWiki.
–> Creating an account from MediaWiki will NOT sign you into WikiData.

I’m currently working on a website that uses oauth to authorize my website to write changes to WikiData. When new users visit the website for the first time, they will be directed to media wiki to create a new account. However, they are not immediately signed in to WikiData, so new users must actually log out, and log back in, to fix the issue.

I was wondering if you have any insight as to why this is happening, if this is intended behavior, or if this is a bug with media wiki.

Thank you for any help!

Tgr

Seems like account creation on mediawiki.org does not result in a central login. It definitely should; filed as T198940.