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Is IP users enabled to choose whether to use the PHP7 feature?

4 comments • 11:28, 7 March 2019 5 years ago

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DreamerBlue (talkcontribs)

I have noticed some edits in Chinese Wikipedia. It seems that an IP user can choose which PHP engine they use?

Reply 03:41, 6 March 2019 5 years ago

87.138.110.76 (talkcontribs)

It looks like the PHP_ENGINE cookie, which the beta feature uses, is not deleted on logout, so if a user selects the PHP7 beta feature and then logs out, I think they’ll continue to use PHP7. Perhaps that is what happened here?

That said, there are also plans to enable PHP7 for some anonymous users as part of A/B testing (T216676), so I would expect this to happen more frequently soon.

Reply 14:51, 6 March 2019 5 years ago

DreamerBlue (talkcontribs)

@Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE): Some local sysops are wondering if these IPs are socket puppets, since enabling a beta feature manually is strange for an IP user. Anyway, thank you.

Reply 11:28, 7 March 2019 5 years ago

Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Bahaha, I had logged out on metawiki to test this and apparently I needed to reload this talk page after the re-login :D (filed T217774 for this)

Reply 14:58, 6 March 2019 5 years ago

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