Wiki for everyone
When we opened up the Eclipse Project Wiki at http://wiki.eclipse.org/wiki/ , we limited editing to Eclipse committers. As per bug 118245, we’ve hacked the authentication mechanism to allow Eclipse Bugzilla registered users to edit the Wiki. It’s not live yet; we’re testing it out to see if it works.
One challenge we had was hacking the Bugzilla login name (essentially, your e-mail address) to map it to a SPAM-safe login name for Wiki.
If you have an Eclipse Bugzilla account, go ahead and log in to the sandbox wiki; make sure you can edit the pages, save your preferences, add pages to your watch list and all that Wiki stuff.
This change should allow the community as a whole to contribute to the Project Wiki, while not requiring you to remember Yet Another Username And Password.
Posted May 1st, 2006 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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Doug Schaefer Says:
May 1st, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Excellent work guys! This will be huge. Now every time someone complains about missing info in the FAQ, I can point out that they have no excuse not to go edit it themselves. It’ll really go a long way towards making contributing easier.
zx Says:
May 1st, 2006 at 10:40 pm
I’m personally looking forward to the lewd pictures that may be posted by the community
AlBlue Says:
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:32 am
Can’t get it to work for me. It keeps replacing the _ with a space in my login details … or then, I might have forgotten my correct password
Denis Roy Says:
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Good catch. Wiki has the habit of converting underscores to spaces (and vice-versa) so I’ll look into it. I’ll update the bug with this information.