lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:

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Somehow in the last few weeks/months the cookie on my portable has gotten messed up and I cannot remember/hack the current password phrase for the wikipedia site. My meta account still works fine, apparently I never changed the password phrase there.

I added your email address to your user record. You can help me test out the "e-mail me a new password" function now. :-)

Many thanks Lee! The tests I ran were successful. Details below.

I attempted to login and then without entering the password clicked on the "e-mail me a new password" button. Approximately 30 seconds later when I queried my mail the message with the password was waiting there in the queue. The subsequent login worked like a charm.

The second test I ran: I logged out. Then attempted to log back in with an incorrect pass phrase. I then hit the "email me a new password" button. Once again the message was waiting in the queue 30 seconds later. I logged in and changed the password to a new phrase. Logged out and back in successfully.

Then I attempted to change my preferences via the special pages menu at the top. After I clicked the drag down, I looked over the options for a few seconds and it apparently timed out and logged me out. This happened a couple of times before I quickly selected preferences and hit the go button to successfully get to the preferences instead of being logged out via a time out.

Not a major bug but it could be pretty disconcerting to a new user and provide an incorrect poor initial impression of the robustness of the wikipedia software. I report the behavior here in case it is new behavior related to the addition of the new (or at least previously untested :) ) "email me a new password" function.

Thanks Again! mirwin