OpenRefine / OpenRefine/openrefine.org
Allow regular Wikimedians to edit Wikidata or Wikimedia accounts with their regular accounts, without requiring bot passwords
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Description
Proposal
@wetneb stated: IMHO doing away with the pop-up entirely, perhaps replacing it with some incentive to use bot passwords in the login form, would be a great move already.
@trnstlntk stated: I would suggest a new page on docs.openrefine.org dedicated to signing into Wikibase(merging the existing docs(1/2)) and replace the two existing paragraphs something pointing to the new page.
"Do you have trouble logging in?" "Safer login metods" or something combining those messages.
Original Comment
I notice during tests and demos that 'regular' Wikimedians (the kind of people who, like me, usually only do small batches and who don't write/operate bots) get confused when OpenRefine asks them to provide / get bot passwords or log in with an owner-only consumer

Can we simplify this process, or make this even unnecessary somehow?
Additional context
I'm creating this issue because at some point I got the following feedback in my log:
19:20:19.823 [..kibaseapi.ApiConnection] API warning [main]: Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes. Use [[Special:ApiFeatureUsage]] to see usage of deprecated features by your application. (2283ms)
19:20:19.824 [..kibaseapi.ApiConnection] API warning [login]: Main-account login via "action=login" is deprecated and may stop working without warning. To continue login with "action=login", see [[Special:BotPasswords]]. To safely continue using main-account login, see "action=clientlogin". (1ms)
and while I'm not well-versed in this stuff, it looks as if "action=clientlogin" is something worth looking into?
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing Wikidata owner-only consumer and MediaWiki Bot Passwords documentation linked in the issue, along with the login warning mentioning action=clientlogin. The issue presents competing options—changing the login flow or creating and linking new documentation—so the intended scope and completion criteria need maintainer clarification.
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Assessment
- Domain
- authentication, documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100