[WikiEN-l] Broken 'Create Account' Page

Wed Dec 21 09:01:02 UTC 2005

It seemed to me that when an ip was blocked, all registered users sharing
this ip were blocked too. If this is right, maybe the creation of new
accounts from people using this ip is disabled.

Anyone to confirm ?

2005/12/20, George Jenkins <gvj11 at student.canterbury.ac.nz>:
>
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >  It works for me in firefox 1.0.7 and IE 6.0, so you might be having
> >some browser related issue?
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org
> >>[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of George Jenkins
> >>Sent: Monday, 19th December 2005 11:43 PM
> >>To: English Wikipedia
> >>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Broken 'Create Account' Page
> >>
> >>
> >>Sorry in advance if this is posted to the wrong place.
> >>
> >>It appears to me that the page in which to sign up to Wikipedia is
> >>broken
> >>(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&t
> >>
> >>
> >ype=signup).
> >(As I have never used this page before its hard to say) It appears that
> >the fields to enter a username and password are missing.
> >
> >Could someone redirect me or this message to someone who may know about
> >this.
> >
> Hmmm, when I sent my previous email I was at work. However, last night
> when I went home I had no problems registering. This morning when I
> tried again at work the page still has username and password fields
> missing.
>
> At home I use Firefox 1.0.7 on Gentoo Linux, and at work Firefox 1.5 on
> Windows 2000.
>
> One other piece of information that may or may not be relevant is that
> my companies internet address has been blocked by User:Curps as he/she
> believes that the address belongs to an anoymous proxy (Half the reason
> I wanted to sign up is so I could attempt to have this rectified).
>
> Cheers, George.
>
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