This directory temporarily hosts pre-AuthManager code as a way of feature-flagging. Class names are postfixed with 'PreAuthManager' and SpecialPageFactory adds/removes that postfix based on the feature flag. This is a horrible hack that will only be in place for a few weeks, to allow instant rollback while AuthManager is tested in WMF production and major problems are ironed out. In the past such issues have been handled via deployment branches, but that meant blocking the work of all WMF developers from being deployed. This is hoped to be a less disruptive method.