[Wikipedia-l] Help from a sys admin requested
Michael R. Irwin
mri_icboise at surfbest.net
Wed Jul 31 07:21:27 UTC 2002
lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
>
> >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
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