Grants:IdeaLab/Logout tool
Project idea edit
What is the problem you're trying to solve? edit
What problem are you trying to solve by doing this project? This problem should be small enough that you expect it to be completely or mostly resolved by the end of this project. Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question.
Last month the English Wikipedia suffered a cyber attack with the apparent aim of locating and cracking weak password accounts. This spurred calls for stronger passwords and two-factor authentication, but overlooked a key part of account security: logging out.
What is your solution? edit
For the problem you identified in the previous section, briefly describe your how you would like to address this problem. We recognize that there are many ways to solve a problem. We’d like to understand why you chose this particular solution, and why you think it is worth pursuing. Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question.
I would like to see a tool developed that would allow users to check and see if their Wiki-accounts are signed in on any other devices, and to unilateral sign out from any signed in devices in order to prevent someone from re-accessing or otherwise hijacking Wikipedia accounts for malevolent purposes.
Project goals edit
What are your goals for this project? Your goals should describe the top two or three benefits that will come out of your project. These should be benefits to the Wikimedia projects or Wikimedia communities. They should not be benefits to you individually. Remember to review the tutorial for tips on how to answer this question.
Increased security for Wiki-account holders by ensuring that all electronic devices that currently read as being logged into an account can be simultaneously logged out of the account regardless of the device's location. In this way users who, say, log into a computer at the public library or a friends house and forget to log off can retroactively logout of those devices from their home computers or mobile devices before someone with malevolent intention commandeers the accounts and either uses them in a way that results in a block or outright hijacks them by changing the password for the account in question.
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- Other sites already have this feature OhanaUnitedTalk page 05:34, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Expand your idea edit
Would a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation help make your idea happen? You can expand this idea into a grant proposal.
No funding needed? edit
Does your idea not require funding, but you're not sure about what to do next? Not sure how to start a proposal on your local project that needs consensus? Contact Chris Schilling on-wiki at I JethroBT (WMF) (talk · contribs) or via e-mail at cschilling
wikimedia.org for help!