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[Phpwiki-talk] Why Can't I Edit Anything on the SourceForge PhpWiki?

[Bill T. <bt...@gi...>]

I had some problems with installing PhpWiki, so I went to the wiki at the 
PhpWiki homepage to find out what to do. I went to the FAQ, found that 
others also had the problem, but the answer given didn't work. I thought 
it would be a good idea to mention that right there in the wiki, so I 
tried to edit the page.

It wouldn't let me, saying that my privilege level wasn't high enough. So 
then I tried the SandBox. Couldn't edit anything there either. What's the 
deal?

I then tried "signing in" using the edit control on the lower right of the 
first page. Still couldn't edit anything, even the SandBox. Seems to me 
like something's wrong with the wiki at 
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki. What do I need to do to get high 
enough privilege to contribute to this wiki?

- Bill Thoen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Why Can't I Edit Anything on the SourceForge PhpWiki?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

> I then tried "signing in" using the edit control on the lower right of
> the  first page. Still couldn't edit anything, even the SandBox. Seems
> to me  like something's wrong with the wiki at
> http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki. What do I need to do to get high
>  enough privilege to contribute to this wiki?
>
> - Bill Thoen

Sign in with a user name which is a valid wiki word.
"BillThoen" for example.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/~rurban/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Why Can't I Edit Anything on the SourceForge PhpWiki?

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

Reini Urban wrote:

>>I then tried "signing in" using the edit control on the lower right of
>>the  first page. Still couldn't edit anything, even the SandBox. Seems
>>to me  like something's wrong with the wiki at
>>http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki. What do I need to do to get high
>> enough privilege to contribute to this wiki?
>>
>>- Bill Thoen
>>    
>>
>
>Sign in with a user name which is a valid wiki word.
>"BillThoen" for example.
>  
>

Due to Bill's email, I went and tried to edit the 
FrequentlyAskedQuestions page. What I found is that I was able to log 
in, and able to edit the page. However, the site was SO SLOW that it was 
torture.  I essentially had to do something else between clicks. I 
believe this slowness is why my edits look like they didn't take (!). If 
you look at the page source, I moved "PhpWikiDocumentation" down to the 
bottom, but the page itself still does not show that change visibly. 
Perhaps this happened to Bill?

Anyway, what do we think of moving the SourceForge Phpwiki to a 
non-SourceForge machine that actually has a few cycles, and redirecting 
the traffic? If that sounds good, does anyone have a machine available?

Dan

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Why Can't I Edit Anything on the SourceForge PhpWiki?

[Bill T. <bt...@gi...>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Dan Frankowski wrote:

> Reini Urban wrote:
> 
> >Sign in with a user name which is a valid wiki word.
> >"BillThoen" for example.
> >  
> 
> Due to Bill's email, I went and tried to edit the 
> FrequentlyAskedQuestions page. What I found is that I was able to log 
> in, and able to edit the page. However, the site was SO SLOW that it was 
> torture.  I essentially had to do something else between clicks. I 
> believe this slowness is why my edits look like they didn't take (!). If 
> you look at the page source, I moved "PhpWikiDocumentation" down to the 
> bottom, but the page itself still does not show that change visibly. 
> Perhaps this happened to Bill?

Actually, the problem was that I had blocked cookies, and even if you sign
in using a WikiWord name, if you don't allow cookies, you lose. Anonymous
users cannot edit anything, but if you sign in as NoahBody or AnonYmous,
and accept cookies, you can still be "anonymous" and run amok.

The server really was crawling and gasping at times yesterday. If I hadn't
already seen how an unencumbered wiki works, I would have had my doubts
about the software. Maybe the demo site really ought to be on a zippier 
host.

- BillThoen

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Why Can't I Edit Anything on the SourceForge PhpWiki?

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

> Dan wrote:
> Anyway, what do we think of moving the SourceForge Phpwiki to a
> non-SourceForge machine that actually has a few cycles, and redirecting
> the traffic? If that sounds good, does anyone have a machine available?

We should rather try dba instead.

First dba is much faster anyway, and second sf.net is incredibly slow with
mysql with its thousands of webhosts using mysql and its stupid blocking
mechanism.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/~rurban/