Last week I upgraded the software for the Pirates@Home glossary to MediaWiki 1.13.0, which was released only a week or two earlier. I found that the extension I had written to allow automatic authentication to the wiki based on being logged in to the BOINC project was broken, and I fixed that as well.

It would be useful to test my changes. First, does it behave correctly when you are or are not logged in to the BOINC project first? Do logging in and logging out work as expected? Note that I have turned off the requirement for RAC to edit or create a new page, but I may turn that back on to test that it also still works.

If this all works as expected, we may also temporarily try MediaWiki 1.12, and perhaps even 1.11, to verify that the extension also works with those earlier versions. I'd like for it to be as robust as possible, even though there are internal changes to match the changes due to the evolution of the MediaWiki code.

Please let me know if you find any problems. Thank you.
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-- Eric Myers

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

Do logging in and logging out work as expected? Note that I have turned off the requirement for RAC to edit or create a new page, but I may turn that back on to test that it also still works.

I can't create or edit page.
RAC requirement is now in place?

I don't think the RAC requirement is in place. I have 0.0 RAC and can edit, but maybe that is just my account.

I found some extra wiki accounts, possibly created while I was working on the auth extension. It might have thought you were one of them not you. I deleted them. When you try again, if you would please, be sure to note the account name in the upper right corner.

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-- Eric Myers

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

Apparently everything works as expected, I could modify or create pages.
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Peter .-)

I don't think the RAC requirement is in place...
When you try again, if you would please, be sure to note the account name in the upper right corner.

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The front page was indeed locked. Only a SysOp could edit it. I just removed that protection.

But what about some other article pages?

So now we should try the whole thing, only with the RAC threshold adjusted so that Contact can be promoted to seaman and edit pages, but not to able_seaman (which would allow him to add new pages).

The captain can edit, so can Rusty, so can Pepo. But not me or Contact.

Both Rusty and Pepo are chiefs. They have permission regardless of RAC.

... Going back to the Wiki, the Pirate's Glossary page shows that I am still logged in. Every other page showed that no body was logged in. I couldn't convince it to show me logged out on the Pirate's Glossary page; I even closed down the browser. I didn't flush my cache yet, but I could try that next. No proxy servers here at the office.

Code dwarf is right that I had not completely eliminated the permissions check based on RAC, and that we should test that further. But we are a bit low in the water now, with only `hello` working and everybody low on RAC. So we'll put that off a bit.

For now, I have changed the permissions so that RAC should not matter. Any member of the crew should be able to edit or create a page when logged in, but not when logged out. Please try that and report problems.

It looks like Ian did test the RAC limits a bit, but we can go back to that when there is a wider range of RAC to test with.

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-- Eric Myers

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