#microformats 2016-10-06

2016-10-06 UTC
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bigbluehat hi all. could I get access to edit my personal page on the wiki? http://microformats.org/wiki/User:BigBlueHat
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bigbluehat tnx
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pfefferle bigbluehat you should have...
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bigbluehat hrm.. still getting this error: "You do not have permission to edit pages, for the following reason: You do not have permission to create new pages on Microformats Wiki."
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aaronpk ah that's not specific to your user page
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aaronpk there are some pretty strict limits on accounts to cut down on spam
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aaronpk i think if you make a couple minor edits to other pages it will eventually let you create pages
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aaronpk hah i don't have permission to create pages either
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pfefferle but the user page is no new is it?
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aaronpk there's no history for the user page http://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:BigBlueHat&action=history
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pfefferle ok, it seems that I can create the page... should I?
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bigbluehat if you do, imma edit it ;)
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bigbluehat might be a good thing to have user pages auto created with some stub content like the user name
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bigbluehat avoids the problem without changing the permissions reqs
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bigbluehat ...maybe ;)
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pfefferle done
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aaronpk well spam users would be able to edit their user pages and drop link spam into them so we don't want that
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aaronpk wiki spam has been a huge problem on the microformats wiki :(
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aaronpk we avoid it entirely on the indieweb wiki by making people log in through indieauth.com
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pfefferle oh... so please don't spam bigbluehat
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pfefferle perhaps we should do the same for the microformats wiki
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aaronpk there has been some talk about that. can't remember the discussion exactly.
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aaronpk part of the problem is it's such an old version of mediawiki that the plugin might not actually work
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aaronpk ..which is its own problem
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pfefferle hmmm
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bigbluehat pfefferle: spam's too salty for my taste.
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bigbluehat I'll be good. promise
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bigbluehat ...why we have software run the web is beyond me...
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