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Fram (talkcontribs)

Until very recently, when I came here from enwiki, I was automatically logged in here. Today, this doesn't seem to work. Is this restricted to me or a general problem?

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

CentralAuth issues are often hard to describe, since the implementation of SUL2. If you can reproduce the issue reliably, please report a bug with clear steps to reproduce.

Fram (talkcontribs)

Um, I don't think there is anything more to add wrt "clear steps": start a browser session, open enwiki with your useraccount there, then go from some enwiki page to a mediawiki page (I started from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor and used the "(or at Mediawiki)" link in the infobox on the right), and notice that you are not logged in at MediaWiki... At least, that's what happens to me!

And I can't file a bug at Bugzilla, as I am indefinitely blocked there. Which saves me a lot of trouble :-)

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

Could you check to see if you have any browser plugins that mangle cookies? I have a cookie self-destruct add-on, for example, that could cause problems like this. Otherwise, check the village pump to see if anyone else has reported any issues.

Fram (talkcontribs)

Standard FF26 without any add-ons. I don't have this problem when going from enwiki to e.g. frwiki or to Commons, only (as far as I have seen) when going to Mediawiki.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I've had occasional problems with logging in at en.wp and then discovering that I was logged out at Meta or Mediawiki, also in Firefox. However, the reverse doesn't seem to happen, and it's not common. Does this happen to you every time you come to Mediawiki?

Fram (talkcontribs)

Today, every time I tried it, even after restarting my computer. Before today, not that I recall.

Fram (talkcontribs)

For the first time in a week, I was automatically logged in when coming here from enwiki. No idea if this fixed, or if it is simply unpredictable.

Glaisher (talkcontribs)

This has been happening since loginwiki was deployed and yes, it is a general problem. Many others have also reported this. As a SWMT member, I encounter this problem very often when visiting other wikis and it is extremely annoying. Sometimes if the page is reloaded twice, gets logged in automatically and preferences are set automatically. That is, if javascript is enabled and sometimes even if javascript is enabled, I have to log in manually.

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