The codex now recognizes the single-sign…
The codex now recognizes the single-sign-on wp.org cookies and signs you in with them.
Note that MediaWiki has its own cookies too, so logout doesn’t quite work right. I’ll work on that soon.
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Mike Schinkel 10:21 pm on October 18, 2010 Permalink
I was wondering why Codex how gives nothing more than “Failed to get ID from name ‘MikeSchinkel’”; ideas how to fix; clear cookies?
Otto 10:28 pm on October 18, 2010 Permalink
Sorry about that. Working on it.
Ipstenu 10:27 pm on October 18, 2010 Permalink
Log out, delete cookies, and try again?
Jane Wells 10:30 pm on October 18, 2010 Permalink
Maybe a note on the Codex home page letting people know this would be good? Seeing some chatter via forums that people think it’s broken.
Otto 11:17 pm on October 18, 2010 Permalink
Okay, this is temporarily disabled until I figure out what went wrong. Mike, email me directly please, since you can reproduce this and I can’t.
Mike Schinkel 11:50 pm on October 18, 2010 Permalink
Emailed, but it seemed to have cleared up.
Otto 12:00 am on October 19, 2010 Permalink
Okay, problem is solved for the subset of people that were having the problem.
Long story short: If your username matches without regard to case, then you’ll get logged in properly now. If it can’t find a matching user for you, then, well, you just won’t get logged in. Better than getting that error.
In theory, it should make a new user for you in MediaWiki in that particular case, but that doesn’t seem to be working for now. I’ll sort that out tomorrow. At least you’ll be able to access the codex regardless.