[Licom-l] Login bug

[Andrew Leung]

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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