https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34590

--- Comment #16 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2012-03-05 19:42:45 UTC ---

> 
> @localhost can't be considered as a valid email, at least not for a user but
> for a developper ok. But the patch works, you can't authenticate this way but
> need your real username.
> 
> The patch is valid for MOST users, not all I agree. What I understand from 
> your
> Bawolff@localhost address is that you have a Linux account on the Wikipedia
> servers. Would it be possible to process the mysql test of my Comment #9? With
> its result we could refine our estimation of what MOST means (suppressing also
> addresses @localhost) and thus have a better of how many wikipedians users
> could benefit of such a patch.

The @localhost part is unimportant. Its the fact that my email started with a
lowercase 'b', not an uppercase 'B' that made things not work. I imagine its
quite common for people to start their email with a lowercase letter (The user
part of an email is of course n theory case-insensitive, but the db stores it
in a cases sensitive manner)

> 
> 
> > 
> > There's certainly more that could be done with normalizations (IDN is 
> > mentioned
> > above, etc) But at the basic level, if you type your exact letter for letter
> > email address in the login box, it should be able to find it in the system
> 
> OK for the underscore which did not pass the getText! No time yet to propose 
> to
> let raw email be directly tested by mysql.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > *Type an email in special:contributions. You can now given an email, 
> > > > associate
> > > > a user with that email. That's a bad thing (emails are supposed to be 
> > > > secret).
> > > 
> > > This point is very very important. But from what you said, I am sure that 
> > > if
> > > you reviewed the patch, you did not test it!
> > > 
> > > As said in previous discussions, if you enter an email instead of a 
> > > username in
> > > Special:UserContribution, you get nothing:
> > > ------------------------
> > > User contributions
> > > For [email protected] (talk | block log | uploads | logs)
> > > Search for contributions  Show contributions of new accounts only
> > >  IP address or username: Namespace:  Deleted only
> > > 
> > >  Only show edits that are latest revisions
> > > 
> > > From year (and earlier): From month (and earlier):
> > > 
> > > No changes were found matching these criteria. 
> > > -------------------
> > > 
> > > but if you enter the name "Nicolas Brouard" you get:
> > > 
> > > -------------------
> > > (Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50 | older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
> > > 
> > >     12:29, 1 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:62 ‎ (Zeugungsunfähigkeit) 
> > > (top)
> > >     09:06, 10 October 2011 (diff | hist) N Category:Term of the second 
> > > edition
> > > of the multilingual demographic Dictionary (redirect) ‎ (Some 
> > > explanations)
> > > (top)
> > >     23:25, 24 September 2010 (diff | hist) Template:NewTextTerm ‎ (top)
> > >     18:55, 24 September 2010 (diff | hist) m Category:To be checked ‎ 
> > > (top)
> > >     18:30, 24 September 2010 (diff | hist) Category:To be checked ‎ (Which
> > > pages should I check?)
> > >     18:26, 24 September 2010 (diff | hist) m Category:To be checked ‎ 
> > > (→Summary
> > > of parameters of NewTextTerm or TextTerm)
> > > 
> > > --------------
> > 
> > 
> > Different behaviour was obtained on my test wiki.
> 
> Could you detail what you get. I am curious.

I got the exact same output of Special:Contributions with my email as I would
have if I inputted my User name.

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