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Fandom Authentication

Authentication

Fandom secures its APIs with session, oauth2, and oauth1 across 5 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions. OAuth 2.0 is offered via the authorizationCode flow(s).

CompanyConsumerWikiMediaWikiMediaEntertainmentCommunityContentFan Community
Methods: session, oauth2, oauth1 Schemes: 5 OAuth flows: authorizationCode API key in:

Security Schemes

AnonymousRead none
CsrfToken token
ClientLogin session
BotPassword session
OAuth oauth2
· flows: authorizationCode

Source

Authentication Profile

fandom-authentication.yml Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Authentication
note: >-
  Fandom runs MediaWiki 1.43.9 (confirmed live via
  api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo). It exposes the standard MediaWiki Action
  API authentication surface. No bespoke Fandom auth spec is published; this
  profile is grounded in the confirmed MediaWiki generator and the upstream
  MediaWiki authentication documentation.
summary:
  types:
  - session
  - oauth2
  - oauth1
  token_based: true
  api_key_in: []
  oauth2_flows:
  - authorizationCode
  anonymous_read: true
schemes:
- name: AnonymousRead
  type: none
  description: >-
    Read modules (query, parse, opensearch, feed*) are available anonymously.
    Public read access is the default for content wikis; some private wikis gate
    reads behind login.
- name: CsrfToken
  type: token
  description: >-
    All write actions (edit, upload, move, delete, etc.) require a CSRF token
    obtained from action=query&meta=tokens&type=csrf, plus an authenticated
    session cookie. Distinct token types exist (csrf, login, createaccount,
    patrol, rollback, userrights, watch, deleteglobalaccount).
- name: ClientLogin
  type: session
  description: >-
    Interactive/username-password login via action=clientlogin using AuthManager
    (the modern replacement for the legacy action=login). Establishes a session
    cookie carried on subsequent write requests.
- name: BotPassword
  type: session
  description: >-
    Scoped, revocable credentials created at Special:BotPasswords for automated
    clients. Used with action=login (or clientlogin) to obtain a bot session
    with a restricted grant set, without exposing the account password.
- name: OAuth
  type: oauth2
  description: >-
    MediaWiki Extension:OAuth exposes OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0 authorization at
    Special:OAuth for registered consumers, issuing owner-only or full
    authorization-code tokens with grant-based scopes. Availability of the OAuth
    consumer registration flow varies by Fandom deployment.
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Special:OAuth/authorize
    tokenUrl: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Special:OAuth/token