It certainly sounds like a bug. There are many bugs associated with the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5 (and also many invaluable new features). The developers will obviously work to fix any problems, but that will take time. I suggest if you don't want your block to be extended automagically by the software, stop trying to edit until the block has expired.
~Mark Ryan
On 6/30/05, Nathan J. Yoder njyoder@energon.org wrote:
Aha, I figured out why it's doing it. I just hit "edit page" while still logged in as njyoder and the thing automatically renews the block whenever I do that. This is what happens when you upgrade to beta version of software. Try a test block on another account and you'll see it will automatically renew the block even if you're logged in as the same user who was originally blocked. That's a bug or some strange misfeature.
Nathan J. Yoder http://www.gummibears.nu/ http://www.gummibears.nu/files/njyoder_pgp.key
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