I've made some changes to the code so that when you are put 'in the brig' then you loose your seaman status on the wiki. I've also added more explicit restrictions. The idea is that if you are suspended/banished on the discussion site then you also cannot use the wiki at all (for now - later we may allow just reading). It needs some testing, so I'm throwing a few of the crew in the brig. No hard feelings...
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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

In the Brig again?! It's not my fault. It was the bad batch a grog.
It's good to be out again. The Brig was even more secure this trip. I could not move pages or upload images.
As before, couldn't create or edit pages in the Glossary. Not able to start discussion, but I could add to an existing discussion. I think?
I could read all wiki pages while in the Brig.

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Click and enter your name for your BOINC Statistics

When someone's in the brig, the picture hides her/his achievements (credit, RAC, dubloons). Is it by accident, or rather by design (sort of punishment)?
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Peter .-)

When someone's in the brig, the picture hides her/his achievements (credit, RAC, dubloons). Is it by accident, or rather by design (sort of punishment)?

Okay, I've done a bit more now to secure the brig. If you are in the brig you should not be able to edit even talk pages, or in fact to view any page. We'll relax that last bit after the first test.

If this works, we won't be hearing from a few of the crew for a while. Best not to be on deck when I come out of my cabin...

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

It's sort of like waiting for the astronauts to come back into radio contact after they went behind the moon.

They are out of the brig now. Let's see what they have to report.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

During previous sentences to the brig, I was tossed in without having to log out.
This trip to the brig I needed to log out (and back in) to be locked out of the Glossary, but didn't need to log out for the brig to take effect here.
After logging out, I was asked for e-mail and password when clicking the link to the Glossary. After entering info, the browser showed page not found on server but login to Pirates@Home was successful.
I did get to the Glossary once while I was in the brig and was able to create and edit pages, but tried several times before and after without luck.
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Click and enter your name for your BOINC Statistics

It's sort of like waiting for the astronauts to come back into radio contact after they went behind the moon.

They are out of the brig now. Let's see what they have to report.

My experience this round was similar to that of Contact, except that I was always able to enter the Glossary on second effort. That is, my first click on the Glossary link at the top of this page would result in the log-in page being called up. However, clicking the glossary link a second time without entering anything into the log-in boxes allowed me into the wiki pages with no problem. I was able to do this despite logging in/out multiple times.

Once in the Glossary, I was not listed as being in the Brig at any time though I was always in that state on the Pirates@Home pages.

My experience this round was similar to that of Contact, except that I was always able to enter the Glossary on second effort. That is, my first click on the Glossary link at the top of this page would result in the log-in page being called up. However, clicking the glossary link a second time without entering anything into the log-in boxes allowed me into the wiki pages with no problem.

Thank you for the reports. It sounds like it still does not work as hoped, and I will have to sort through whether it's just how I configured it (mis-configured it) or if it's in the MediaWiki code, which I'm getting somewhat familiar with (but not much, it's much larger than the BOINC code, and more complicated).

Pepo, I did not put you in the brig this time, so it's probably set that way on the wiki from last time. Try logging out and logging in again to see what happens.

This time I did make some attempt to intercept the "you must log in" redirects on the wiki side and sent them to the BOINC side, but I didn't see any of that really working. I may need to ask for some help from the MediaWiki developers for that. I don't think they envisioned this kind of arrangement between two such pieces of software when they set up their authentication plug-ins, not that they should have.

It seems I may need to find a way to transmit to the wiki at least the fact that the user's status has changed on the BOINC side and so their credentials should be re-examined. I could have it check your status for every page you load, but that would be overkill.

More to think about. Thank you all again.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

I did already log out and in some 4 hours ago. OK, now I've tried again (sorry for long log, possibly not fully exact, but as far as the memory serves):
- went into Glossary - still "in brig",
- logged out
- on (usual Pirates') login page, entered email+passwd and pressed the next button (not the Account key one! and for sure I've neither entered the account key nor email+passwd again)
- Error: you have to supply the account key! (but IIRC upper right corner already contained my avatar and Logout pic),
- (I've possibly tried to enter "Your account" page and got some error, not sure),
- entered Glossary link - Login page,
- pressed browser's Back button - got my correct user page,
- again Glossary link - OK,
- User list - Pepo still in brig.

Then I went back to Pirates forum, logged out, logged in with email+passwd (no Account key error), entered Glossary link - Login page, browser back, again Glossary - OK. And still in brig.

Uffffff. Now I really need a pint of grog. [size=-2]Jord, when will you meet your mum next time?[/size]
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Peter .-)

[size=-2]Jord, when will you meet your mum next time?[/size]

I've sent you a new barrel with PPS (Pirates Packet Service). Should be in tomorrow. :)

Today I took a look into Glossary again (without logging out first). Still the same - "You have to log in first to ..." (I don't remember whether edit or anything else, but this time it was Wiki informational page, not usual Pirates' login page). Now I only refreshed my browser's window and I could immediately see the Glossary's initial page. (If it does matter, still tested with IE 7).

And obviously still in the wiki brig.
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Peter .-)

Today I took a look into Glossary again (without logging out first). Still the same - "You have to log in first to ..." (I don't remember whether edit or anything else, but this time it was Wiki informational page, not usual Pirates' login page). Now I only refreshed my browser's window and I could immediately see the Glossary's initial page. (If it does matter, still tested with IE 7).

Still the same - "You have to log in first to ..." (I don't remember whether edit or anything else, but this time it was Wiki informational page, not usual Pirates' login page).

I now suspect that you have been singled out for this because you are a chief. I'll check the logic again for assigning groups on the wiki based on BOINC status.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

I now suspect that you have been singled out for this because you are a chief. I'll check the logic again for assigning groups on the wiki based on BOINC status.

But I did revise how one gets into or out of the brig. Let's see if Pepo gets out of the brig now.

It also looks like there will be a way to make these changes take effect immediately, without requiring that the user logout and login again. But I have not yet set that up.

Let's see if Pepo gets out of the brig now.

It also looks like there will be a way to make these changes take effect immediately, without requiring that the user logout and login again. But I have not yet set that up.

Currently it's still the same behaviour, first time (really only the first time) I get to Glossary after opening a new browser instance, I do get this login request. After refreshing the page, I'm in. Regardless of whether I did Pirates' logout-login cycle in the same window previously or not. Maybe some sort of dynamic cooke created by that browser instance/connection? It is not enough to create new tab in browser, this way I get in. New instance.

Internal error
Hooks array for event 'LoginRequired' is not an array!

Backtrace:
etc...

Now, when entering Glossary from Pirates' pages, I get immediately in. Even from new browser instance.

When entering http://pirates.spy-hill.net/glossary as first link, I get to [[A Pirates Glossary]] page an not-logged-in visitor. There is a [[Log in]] link at the upper right corner. Refreshing the page has no effect. After entering the [[Log in]] link I get to [size=+1]Log in[/size] page, Username: box is pre-filled with my usernickname. Refreshing the page or pressing the browser's Back button causes additional [[logout]] link appearing at the upper right corner. Refreshing the page again or pressing the browser's Forward button logs me fully in (with all usual links up there).
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Peter .-)

Fuzzy Hollynoodles ‎(seaman) ????

What does that mean? Why seaman, why not able_seaman, what is the difference?

And shouldn't that be seawench in my case?


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Fuzzy Hollynoodles ‎(seaman) ????

What does that mean? Why seaman, why not able_seaman, what is the difference?

And shouldn't that be seawench in my case?

What does that mean? Why seaman, why not able_seaman, what is the difference?

And shouldn't that be seawench in my case?

Now where in the world are you seeing that?

What does that mean? Why seaman, why not able_seaman, what is the difference?

It's the 1.00 RAC. Otherwise the able_seaman becomes disabled :-(

And shouldn't that be seawench in my case?

We should agree on the rules how could a brave seaman become a seawench. (Or is any surgery necessary?)