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Notification that a temporary account has been created appears when already logged-in and creating a page with DiscussionTools
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Go to https://translatewiki.net/ and log in
  • Go to a talk page that doesn't exist yet
  • Start and post a new topic using DiscussionTools ("Add topic" button)
    • (bonus points if you tag that page with the {{delete}} template after you've tested)

What happens?:

  • A notification appears saying that a temporary user account has been created for me, even though I am already logged in with my regular account (see screenshot)

Screenshot_20230904_160507.png (401×661 px, 32 KB)

What should have happened instead?:

  • No such notification should appear.

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
MediaWiki 1.41.0-alpha

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

I can reproduce the reported bug as well:

imagen.png (302×1 px, 57 KB)

Change 954706 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Fix temp user popup appearing on every new page creation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/954706

matmarex moved this task from Backlog to Triaged on the DiscussionTools board.
matmarex moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.

(wmf.25 is not deployed to any Wikimedia wikis yet)

Change 954706 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@master] Fix temp user popup appearing on every new page creation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/954706

I think this needs to be backported since the branch commit for wmf.25 already happened before merge

Change 954943 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@wmf/1.41.0-wmf.25] Fix temp user popup appearing on every new page creation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/954943

Change 954943 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/DiscussionTools@wmf/1.41.0-wmf.25] Fix temp user popup appearing on every new page creation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/954943

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-09-05T20:20:28Z] <cjming@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:954943|Fix temp user popup appearing on every new page creation (T345569)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-09-05T20:22:01Z] <cjming@deploy1002> cjming and matmarex: Backport for [[gerrit:954943|Fix temp user popup appearing on every new page creation (T345569)]] synced to the testservers mwdebug2001.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug1002.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug2002.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug1001.eqiad.wmnet, and mw-debug kubernetes deployment (accessible via k8s-experimental XWD option)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-09-05T20:32:06Z] <cjming@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:954943|Fix temp user popup appearing on every new page creation (T345569)]] (duration: 11m 37s)

matmarex added a project: Editing QA.

Should be resolved now. Thanks for the report @jhsoby!

No probs. Thank you for the quick fix, @matmarex!