On sab, 2003-01-25 at 00:05, Magnus Manske wrote:
> If you entered your email to be contacted via the wikipedia interface,
> that email won't show on your user preferences page. Is that a security
> feature, or Alzheimer's on our part? ;-)
I believe this is a browser bug. Are you using Mozilla or close kin, and
did you tell it to save your username and password for the login form?
It seems to recognize the change password fields and e-mail fields in
the preferences box as 'the same' as the login form, and helpfully fills
in the e-mail field with the same value you did before -- probably
empty.
Workaround: tell it not to save your info. (But that's annoying!)
Haven't tried yet, but might also work: clear the saved form, then when
you login again fill the e-mail field. It ought to keep the value around
on the preferences.
We may want to tweak the form to make it look different to browsers that
pull tricks like this. Blech.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
