Is this Wikibase API warning an issue already?

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Thad Guidry

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Mar 25, 2021, 10:02:49 PM3/25/21
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20:52:51.558 [                   refine] GET /command/wikidata/login (3252ms)
20:52:51.562 [                   refine] POST /command/core/get-all-preferences (4ms)
20:53:02.624 [           ProjectManager] Saving some modified projects ... (11062ms)
20:53:02.634 [        project_utilities] Saved project '1672151465617' (10ms)
20:53:13.097 [                   refine] GET /command/core/get-csrf-token (10463ms)
20:53:13.108 [                   refine] POST /command/wikidata/login (11ms)
20:53:15.162 [..kibaseapi.ApiConnection] API warning [main]: Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes. Use [[Special:ApiFeatureUsage]] to see usage of deprecated features by your application. (2054ms)
20:53:15.163 [..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)
20:53:15.168 [                   refine] GET /command/core/get-csrf-token (5ms)
20:53:15.173 [                   refine] POST /command/wikidata/preview-wikibase-schema (5ms)

Using 3.4.1 win-with-java and was trying to help someone by trying to reproduce an issue someone is having uploading edits to Wikidata and noticed this after login dialog.

Owen Stephens

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Mar 26, 2021, 11:00:17 AM3/26/21
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Hey Thad,

I think the warning is down to using a normal login for Wikidata. The recommendation is to use a BotPassword instead - there are details on how to set this up in the new documentation (thanks Allanna) https://docs.openrefine.org/manual/wikidata#manage-wikidata-account

Hopefully switching to a bot password will resolve the warning

Owen

Thad Guidry

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Mar 26, 2021, 11:27:25 AM3/26/21
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Do we support OAuth yet?

I noticed this on the provided link to here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:BotPasswords ...
Note: OAuth is more secure than bot passwords and should be preferred whenever the bot supports it.
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Thad Guidry

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Mar 26, 2021, 11:31:28 AM3/26/21
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And secondly... when I am creating the bot account... is the High-volume editing rights necessary?  I assume so, since it seems to support "Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)" ?
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListGrants#highvolume

Owen Stephens

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Mar 26, 2021, 11:31:32 AM3/26/21
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On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 3:27:25 PM UTC thadg...@gmail.com wrote:
Do we support OAuth yet?

I believe this will be available from OpenRefine 3.5 onwards 

Owen 

Owen Stephens

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Mar 26, 2021, 11:33:41 AM3/26/21
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On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 3:31:28 PM UTC thadg...@gmail.com wrote:
And secondly... when I am creating the bot account... is the High-volume editing rights necessary?  I assume so, since it seems to support "Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)" ?
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListGrants#highvolume


Recommended rights to grant 
  • High-volume editing
  • Edit existing pages
  • Create, edit, and move pages
(these are listed in the  documentation at https://docs.openrefine.org/manual/wikidata#manage-wikidata-account)
 

Thad Guidry

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Mar 26, 2021, 12:13:21 PM3/26/21
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Excellent!

I've also proposed an improved Login flow that is probably an easy fix for someone that knows Javascript.

https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/3773
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