Re: Help with 9.5 feature wiki page

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Help with 9.5 feature wiki page
Date: 2015-05-21 12:37:21
Message-ID: 20150521123721.GF27945@fetter.org
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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 07:52:47PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> > So if anyone's up for helping out, please follow the link above and go edit.
>
> Due to some MediaWiki weirdness, I cannot login to edit it. I can do
> so on other pages, but, for whatever reason, not on this particular
> page. I see a 403 forbidden error upon attempting to do so. I can
> successfully login on other pages using my community account, but then
> when I navigate back to this page MediaWiki is convinced that I am not
> logged in.

When I ran into this issue, the following worked for me.

- Go to the problem page.
- Click "Main Page".
- Log in as usual.
- Use the back button to return to the page.
- Reload the page

> I have experienced weirdness like this with MediaWiki before, and
> reported it to www-*.

It's a little hokey, but I did manage to edit the page this way.

Cheers,
David.
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