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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
