[Licom-l] Login bug

Sun Apr 12 19:56:48 UTC 2009

Andrew appears to be correct.  From reading:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/wikipedia/en/centralnotice.js?207xx

it appears that hiding any site notice has the effect of hiding ALL
sitenotices for 7 days.  Since there was a Wikimania notice launched a
few days ago, many people are likely to have already hidden the
notices.

Time for some kind of unique ids?

On a related point, the site notice rotation appears to be set to 3/8
empty, 1/8 Wikimania, and 1/2 Licensing.  I'm not sure what the point
of having the empty rotation there is (unless it is to manage vote
server load or something.)

-Robert

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Leung <andrewcleung at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that CentralNotice has already enabled this announcements.
> However, I couldn't see the link on the header bar. I suspect this was
> because I hid the Wikimania notices. Does anyone else missing the
> announcements? If I can't see it, there'll be others out there that would
> otherwise miss the announcements.
>
> Andrew
>
> "Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:12:08 +0100
>> From: tstarling at wikimedia.org
>> To: licom-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: [Licom-l] Login bug
>>
>> There's a bug which we failed to properly identify during beta testing.
>> I guess everyone dismissed it as a temporary issue. When you click the
>> jump button on a Wikimedia wiki, you will be told you are not logged in
>> and cannot vote. If you then click back, then click the jump button
>> again, it will work. This is because the login subpage fails to properly
>> create a session and set a cookie. The error page does create a session,
>> which means that the second attempt, with session created, works.
>>
>> I've applied a probable fix in subversion and asked Michael by email to
>> deploy it, but I haven't heard from him today and it might be some time
>> before he responds. In any case, we've recorded about 140 votes so far,
>> over 2 hours, so I guess the bug is not an obstacle for many people.
>>
>> -- Tim Starling
>>
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