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Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness



* On 2023 26 Aug 07:57 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 07:40:46AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > * On 2023 26 Aug 07:13 -0500, Anssi Saari wrote:
> > > Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> writes:
> > > 
> > > > This Wiki is semi-private in that editing is not open to just everyone
> > > > but may only be done through an account (apparently I have one and now
> > > > have to figure out how to reset my password).
> > > 
> > > Good for you. I tried creating an account but after putting in name
> > > password and email it says no, send email to wiki@debian.org instead. I
> > > think I'll pass. While I have KDE on one Debian machine, I don't use it
> > > much so not that much to contribute.
> > 
> > I was able to successfully change my password and update my Wiki home
> > page a little while ago.  It has been a long time since I created the
> > account and don't recall what the process entailed.
> 
> If I recall correctly, it used to be possible to create an account with
> the standard wiki mechanisms, but that was discontinued due to spammers
> abusing it.  So, those of us who happened to create an account in the
> early days got to do it the easy way, but now any new accounts need to
> be approved by the wiki admins.

I think you're right.  Given the text I updated in my profile/Wiki home
page I'm guessing I created the account ten to fifteen years ago.  At
least Firefox still had the username stored with an expired password
otherwise I'd forgotten all about it!

- Nate

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