Implement OAuth2

[ragesoss]

Wikipedia may discontinue support for OAuth1 at some point, and we rely on a stack of auth-related gems that isn't easy to customize or fix. (In particular, our current implementation of the login does not support setting a User-Agent, so we have to work around that to comply with the Wikimedia User Agent policy.)

This may be a good starting point for figuring out how to implement OAuth2: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-ruby-api?tab=readme-ov-file#080-2023-10-26

We may also need to adjust the way we interface with the API to make edits.

[Abishekcs]

Seems interesting. I can work on this!

[katara-Jayprakash]

sounds intresting! love to work on this issue @Abishekcs sir.

[Abishekcs]

@ragesoss would you be open to using ruby-oauth/oauth2 to replace it with omniauth-mediawiki as it supports only OAuth 1.0.

Also, the recording below works with devise + ruby-oauth/oauth2 and i think the upgrade will probably involve keeping both the Old and New Implementation to keep the PRs as small as possible until we can totally remove the old version/implementation.

test.mp4

[Abishekcs]

@katara-Jayprakash I don’t think this is a beginner-friendly issue. That said, if you feel comfortable working on it, please feel free to suggest any ideas on how we could implement it.

[ragesoss]

That sounds reasonable. That gem looks like it's the same one that @abartov used in the example implementation linked from the Mediawiki API gem doc. (It looks the repo was moved from https://gitlab.com/oauth-xx/oauth2/ to https://github.com/ruby-oauth/oauth2

[Abishekcs]

yes it's the same gem.

[katara-Jayprakash]

Sorry, @Abishekcs sir. I was busy with my campus placements. I’d love to have a look at it in my free time, and if you’d like to work on this, please feel free to take it on.