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MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Hello all --
I know we're basically "whitelisting" both CWiki and MWiki accounts, but
currently I do not find a "Register" link on any OpenOffice Wiki
(https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page)
pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice?
If some alternate means of account registration is used, shouldn't this
be mentioned on the main page?
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RE: MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Posted by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>.
I think it happens by specifying login and there is an avenue to account creation then.
I however, don't want to logout and remove my account to see if that is it [;<).
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Subject: MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Hello all --
I know we're basically "whitelisting" both CWiki and MWiki accounts, but
currently I do not find a "Register" link on any OpenOffice Wiki
(https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page)
pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice?
If some alternate means of account registration is used, shouldn't this
be mentioned on the main page?
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Re: MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On 04/12/2015 10:57 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Kay Schenk wrote:
>>>> currently I do not find a "Register" link on any OpenOffice Wiki
>>>> (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page)
>>>> pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice? ...
>>> Account creation by users on the m-wiki was disabled ...
>> Thanks Keith. Obviously I have not been too observant. I tried some
>> tricks like putting a fake login to see if anything interesting might
>> happen and nothing. Is there something that can actually be put ON
>> Mwiki to assist potential users? A link to an information page in
>> basically the same area of the Login would be great
>
> Well, we do have it but the link is unclear; this is due to a bug with
> that specific MediaWiki version and some adaptations needed which I
> couldn't investigate. If you open
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin you will
> see a big Login button and a link after it, with a wring text like
> "userlogin-helplink" wrapped in HTML entities.
>
> The link leads to
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in
> that explains the account creation process.
>
> So the only issue I see is that the link is not properly displayed n the
> login page due to the known bug we have. Fixing it should not be
> complex, but I didn't have time to investigate it back at the time.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
OK. I do not have "karma" to edit any of the "Special Pages". So, we
wait until someone who does can fix this I guess. :(
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Re: MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
Kay Schenk wrote:
>>> currently I do not find a "Register" link on any OpenOffice Wiki
>>> (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page)
>>> pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice? ...
>> Account creation by users on the m-wiki was disabled ...
> Thanks Keith. Obviously I have not been too observant. I tried some
> tricks like putting a fake login to see if anything interesting might
> happen and nothing. Is there something that can actually be put ON
> Mwiki to assist potential users? A link to an information page in
> basically the same area of the Login would be great
Well, we do have it but the link is unclear; this is due to a bug with
that specific MediaWiki version and some adaptations needed which I
couldn't investigate. If you open
https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin you will
see a big Login button and a link after it, with a wring text like
"userlogin-helplink" wrapped in HTML entities.
The link leads to
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in
that explains the account creation process.
So the only issue I see is that the link is not properly displayed n the
login page due to the known bug we have. Fixing it should not be
complex, but I didn't have time to investigate it back at the time.
Regards,
Andrea.
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Re: MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On 04/12/2015 11:09 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote:
> Kay Schenk wrote:
>> Hello all --
>>
>> I know we're basically "whitelisting" both CWiki and MWiki accounts, but
>> currently I do not find a "Register" link on any OpenOffice Wiki
>> (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page)
>> pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice?
>>
>> If some alternate means of account registration is used, shouldn't this
>> be mentioned on the main page?
>>
> Kay;
>
> Account creation by users on the m-wiki was disabled quite some time ago
> as an anti-spam measure. The procedure to get an m-wki account is to
> send a request for an m-wiki account containing your preferred user name
> and your e-mail address either here or to the documentation mailing
> list and one of the admins, usually myself or Andrea will create the
> account. A notice with a temporary password will be sent to the user at
> the e-mail address provided. The temporary password will be required to
> be changed at the first log-in.
>
> Regards
> Keith
Thanks Keith. Obviously I have not been too observant. I tried some
tricks like putting a fake login to see if anything interesting might
happen and nothing. Is there something that can actually be put ON
Mwiki to assist potential users? A link to an information page in
basically the same area of the Login would be great but I don't know who
would be able to edit main templates like that since I'm sure this is
some standard MW widget or something.
>
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Re: MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Posted by "Keith N. McKenna" <ke...@comcast.net>.
Kay Schenk wrote:
> Hello all --
>
> I know we're basically "whitelisting" both CWiki and MWiki accounts, but
> currently I do not find a "Register" link on any OpenOffice Wiki
> (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page)
> pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice?
>
> If some alternate means of account registration is used, shouldn't this
> be mentioned on the main page?
>
Kay;
Account creation by users on the m-wiki was disabled quite some time ago
as an anti-spam measure. The procedure to get an m-wki account is to
send a request for an m-wiki account containing your preferred user name
and your e-mail address either here or to the documentation mailing
list and one of the admins, usually myself or Andrea will create the
account. A notice with a temporary password will be sent to the user at
the e-mail address provided. The temporary password will be required to
be changed at the first log-in.
Regards
Keith
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Re: MediaWiki missing "new account" icon/Link?
Posted by jan i <ja...@apache.org>.
On Sunday, April 12, 2015, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all --
>
> I know we're basically "whitelisting" both CWiki and MWiki accounts, but
> currently I do not find a "Register" link on any OpenOffice Wiki
> (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page)
> pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice?
>
> If some alternate means of account registration is used, shouldn't this
> be mentioned on the main page?
+1 The cwiki is a 2 step, The user creates an account, then the admin
whitelist it.
we used to have a page in wiki.o.a.o (register) that asked you to send an
email to dev@
rgds
jan i
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