I'm having this problem, preventing me from logging in to Appropedia: "Immediately logging out<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in#Immediately_logging_out>
Some ISPs use transparent proxies<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_proxy>which cause problems logging in. If you find that you are automatically logged out just after you have logged in, and removing all your Wikipedia cookies does not fix the issue, try using the secure server<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page>(much slower) to bypass the proxy. This happens most often with some satellite ISPs (particularly HughesNet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HughesNet> /DirecWay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirecWay>/DirecPC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirecPC> )." The problem is that this is not a Wikimedia site, so that secure server link does not help. It's important, as I'm one of the Appropedia admins and have admin tasks I need to do, while I'm staying in a location (Lago Atitlan, Guatemala) where the ISP uses a satellite connection. I'm not sure why, but it affects some MediaWiki sites and not others. I stay logged in to Wikipedia, Greenlivingpedia <http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/>and the OLPC wiki <http://wiki.laptop.org>, but not to Appropedia<http://www.appropedia.org/>or Envirowiki <http://en.envirowiki.info>, where I get logged out on the first . I can stay logged in to the Creative Commons wiki for several clicks before getting logged out, and with some extra effort I successfully made an edit there. -- Chris Watkins (a.k.a. Chriswaterguy) appropedia.org - Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. identi.ca/appropedia / twitter.com/appropedia blogs.appropedia.org I like this: five.sentenc.es _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
