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I appear not to be able to login to the wiki. From my understanding I should be able to login with my username and password for the forum. My account clearly exists, as I get the bad password message instead of the invalid username message. Is there some sort of restriction on wiki accounts I don't know about (Like account age or usergroup membership)?

After experimenting a bit, it seems mediawiki does not like these characters in passwords:

The following all work:

Since the wiki uses phpBB to authenticate, there's a bit of a discrepancy between username and password requirements. I'd try to change your password and see if you are able to get in after that.

OK thanks. I'm using a randomly generated password, so it contains most special characters on the keyboard. I'll change to something without those characters.

Side note: The passwords are hashed, right? So mediawiki is just outright rejecting passwords with those characters before actually hashing them?

I'd have to dig into it but considering which characters don't work I suspect they are URL encoding or simply stripped from the input. The passwords aren't store in plaintext.

Oh thank God. I was about to give MS a huge ass sideways glance