It was reported on the Wikipedia helpdesk (permalink) and on OTRS (Ticket# 2017062510010051) that user:Ad Hoef is unable to remain logged in.
He reported that logging in is possible, and he sees the preferences buttons etc on top. However, as soon as he navigates to another page within Wikipedia, this disappears, and he's logged out again. He was able to reproduce this over multiple days, on multiple browsers (internet explorer, chrome). Cookies is set to accept. He checked 'remain logged in' at login.