Hi, I suffer from not being notified about my account log-in status any longer, and guess, that many of you feel the same.
Instead of showing the name of the logged-in user, the testwiki and current CVS HEAD version only shows
"My page my talk preferences ....."
This can easily lead to committing edits as anonymous, because one forgot to log in and appears to me a big chance in the "look-and-feel" of MediaWiki. Can this please be reverted to be compliant with the standard user-interface, so that one's name is shown again ?
Tom
While I can see the rationale behind the change (making pages cacheable for logged in users and anons alike), I have to agree that the result is rather confusing, particularly in the current Wikimedia environment with its hundreds of wikis and separate logins which expire separately.
I thought that we were moving towards having sections of a page dynamically generated and other sections statically cached, using ESI? If so, is there any reason not to display the login information?
All best,
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
I thought that we were moving towards having sections of a page dynamically generated and other sections statically cached, using ESI? If so, is there any reason not to display the login information?
The problem with ESI is that it first appears in Squid in version 3, and the problem with Squid 3 is that it's still in development. Progress towards a beta release has been very slow, see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=squid-dev&m=111032283701644&w=2
Note that the potential efficiency gains from Special:Mypage and co. have not actually been implemented, 1.5 still sends anti-squid headers if you have a session cookie. The problem of preference-dependent HTML in the content area has also not been addressed, so there's quite a lot of work to do before these navigation link changes will be useful. A temporary revert is probably in order.
-- Tim Starling
Tim Starling wrote:
Note that the potential efficiency gains from Special:Mypage and co. have not actually been implemented, 1.5 still sends anti-squid headers if you have a session cookie. The problem of preference-dependent HTML in the content area has also not been addressed, so there's quite a lot of work to do before these navigation link changes will be useful. A temporary revert is probably in order.
I'd agree with this. It was a fairly experimental change and accepted on that basis, so put it back for now.
Do still keep the Special:Mypage & co around, though, as they may be handy links; the important part is just showing the username to indicate clearly a) that you're logged in and b) under which account.
We might also want to implement the suggestion of a 'you're editing anonymously' warning line on the edit page.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 26/04/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
We might also want to implement the suggestion of a 'you're editing anonymously' warning line on the edit page.
And a quick-login box, like LiveJournal has.
I know I'm comitting the ultimate open-source sin here, and not knowing or caring about how easy that would be, or who would code it, but I do like that quick-login thingy they have there... :p
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