Has this changed for you recently? We've had some reports of global login problems in the 1.17 rollout but those seem to be fixed now.

If it is still happening, it might be useful to know which browser you are using.

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Has this changed for you recently? We've had some reports of global login
problems in the 1.17 rollout but those seem to be fixed now.
If it is still happening, it might be useful to know which browser you are
using.

This is not a bug of the new upgrade. This has never worked for me. I use IE8 in WinXP Prof.

I just checked this issue with a FireFox browser, and I appear to be signed in globally in a normal manner. So far, this issue only happens in IE8.

Okay, I'm going to close this one out. Sorry devs, but I find that I must set my privacy setting in IE8 to "low" to allow the 3rd-party cookies that log me in globally. And I'm not willing to do that, so I'll have to put up with it. Best of everything to you and yours!

L8RG8Rs

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Okay, I'm going to close this one out. Sorry devs, but I find that I must set
my privacy setting in IE8 to "low" to allow the 3rd-party cookies that log me
in globally. And I'm not willing to do that, so I'll have to put up with it.
Best of everything to you and yours!

Thank you for tracking this down. I wasn't aware of this.

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Okay, I'm going to close this one out. Sorry devs, but I find that I must set
my privacy setting in IE8 to "low" to allow the 3rd-party cookies that log me
in globally. And I'm not willing to do that, so I'll have to put up with it.
Best of everything to you and yours!

Thank you for tracking this down. I wasn't aware of this.

You're welcome! Any possibility that the global login will be compatible with the medium privacy setting in the future?

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You're welcome! Any possibility that the global login will be compatible with
the medium privacy setting in the future?

There is an on-going discussion about CentralAuth (this is how global login is accomplished) right now and, while I don't know enough about IE8 to give you an affirmative answer, I will say that I will raise the issue to see if it is possible.

To see the current discussion: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/52305

Click the Subject link to see the full thread.

As a workaround, adding the wikimedia sites to the trusted zone should fix it for you.
I think we could avoid this problem if we provided a P3P policy.

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As a workaround, adding the wikimedia sites to the trusted zone should fix it
for you.
I think we could avoid this problem if we provided a P3P policy.

Excellent! After adding all the .orgs to the list, I was able to be globally logged in to all of them, save two... wikimediafoundation.org and incubator.wikimedia.org. I double-checked these to make sure I hadn't committed typos, and this is where it remains. Even after adding the foundation to the list (I tried adding the incubator, but it didn't show, presumably because, like "commons", "species", etc., it should have been covered by the "wikimedia.org" entry.), I was not logged into the two .orgs I mentioned. I'm going over to gmane.org and see what's crakalakkin.

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(In reply to comment #7)

You're welcome! Any possibility that the global login will be compatible with
the medium privacy setting in the future?

There is an on-going discussion about CentralAuth (this is how global login is
accomplished) right now and, while I don't know enough about IE8 to give you an
affirmative answer, I will say that I will raise the issue to see if it is
possible.
To see the current discussion:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/52305
Click the Subject link to see the full thread.

Great stuff, and thank you for asking! Of course, I barely understood about every other word. <g> I liked the very brief allusion by Platonides regarding "global preferences". It would be great to take the same skin with me as I browse the Mediawiki Universe. If you're wonderin' why, it's the BG. The simple skin sees my Windows preference of 187 221 187, which is a light, pastel green, *very* easy on the eyes even after hours of reading and editing.

wikimediafoundation.org is not publicly editable, so it is outside the global login.
incubator.wikimedia.org is not in the global list to be logged in (there's no image for it on loading), that's bug 14407. If you do your first login from there, that does also log you into most other sites.

So you are getting the normal behavior now :)

About the background color:
You can change the background color with a custom css

For instance, at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyCSS/common.css write
.pBody, div#content { background: rgb(187,221,187) }

Or if you prefer the full page:
.pBody, div#content, body, #mw-head { background: rgb(187,221,187) }

The above rules work both in vector and monobook.

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wikimediafoundation.org is not publicly editable, so it is outside the global
login.
incubator.wikimedia.org is not in the global list to be logged in (there's no
image for it on loading), that's bug 14407. If you do your first login from
there, that does also log you into most other sites.
So you are getting the normal behavior now :)
About the background color:
You can change the background color with a custom css
For instance, at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyCSS/common.css write
.pBody, div#content { background: rgb(187,221,187) }
Or if you prefer the full page:
.pBody, div#content, body, #mw-head { background: rgb(187,221,187) }
The above rules work both in vector and monobook.

Thank you very much for your explanations! I tried that link, but it auto-morphed to http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:MyCSS/common.css and told me in Espanol that the special page doesn't exist. I tried changing "es" to "en", but it just did the same thing and told me in English that the special page does not exist.

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(In reply to comment #12)

wikimediafoundation.org is not publicly editable, so it is outside the global
login.
incubator.wikimedia.org is not in the global list to be logged in (there's no
image for it on loading), that's bug 14407. If you do your first login from
there, that does also log you into most other sites.
So you are getting the normal behavior now :)
About the background color:
You can change the background color with a custom css
For instance, at http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyCSS/common.css write
.pBody, div#content { background: rgb(187,221,187) }
Or if you prefer the full page:
.pBody, div#content, body, #mw-head { background: rgb(187,221,187) }
The above rules work both in vector and monobook.

Thank you very much for your explanations! I tried that link, but it
auto-morphed to http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:MyCSS/common.css and told
me in Espanol that the special page doesn't exist. I tried changing "es" to
"en", but it just did the same thing and told me in English that the special
page does not exist.

Also, please keep in mind that I can radically change the colors using Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility, which I sometimes do on other websites if I'm going to do a lot of reading. I don't like to use that while editing because it trashes almost all the colors, and it seems *everything* becomes pastel green.

Thank you very much for your explanations! I tried that link, but it
auto-morphed to http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:MyCSS/common.css and told
me in Espanol that the special page doesn't exist. I tried changing "es" to
"en", but it just did the same thing and told me in English that the special
page does not exist.

My fault. The link should have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css

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Thank you very much for your explanations! I tried that link, but it
auto-morphed to http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:MyCSS/common.css and told
me in Espanol that the special page doesn't exist. I tried changing "es" to
"en", but it just did the same thing and told me in English that the special
page does not exist.

My fault. The link should have been
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css

There's a "godsend"! One of my editing challenges was to have to change to the monobook skin (now vector skin) with some of my edits to make sure they looked okay in the general-user skin. Now I can edit in vector. The first code yields white top and left margins, while the second code spreads the pastel green to the TOP, while the left margin becomes a bright, emerald green. It'll take a little gettin' used to, but I think I can live with that. Thank you very much, Platonides, more than words can say!

The body, #mw-head { background: rgb(187,221,187) } version looks IMHO better in monobook, as it keeps the borders there. You could add a border to vector if you wanted, In fact, you could fully customize the page using your personal CSS. It is a matter of writing normal CSS used in the web.

You're welcome :)

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The body, #mw-head { background: rgb(187,221,187) } version looks IMHO better
in monobook, as it keeps the borders there. You could add a border to vector if
you wanted, In fact, you could fully customize the page using your personal
CSS. It is a matter of writing normal CSS used in the web.
You're welcome :)

Got it. All fixed. Long ago I created a vector.css with "#00ff00" overriding everything with "!important". I'd forgotten about that. All better now. Best of everything to you and yours!

*** Bug 29553 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***