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Opened by Timwi - 2013-03-25
Last edited by Thorsten Fröhlich - 2013-03-25
Opened by Timwi - 2013-03-25
Last edited by Thorsten Fröhlich - 2013-03-25
FS#285 - wiki.povray.org is not editable
I cannot edit any pages on wiki.povray.org, even after confirming my e-mail address.
This means that I cannot add any documentation, help improve the documentation, fix errors or help in any other way.
If you want contributions to the documentation, you should let users edit pages.
Closed by Thorsten Fröhlich
Monday, 25 March 2013, 07:26 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing:
Monday, 25 March 2013, 07:26 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing:
Currently, this is intentional.
As Thorsten mentioned, it's intentional. 99% of all user registrations on the wiki are spammers, and it would be closer to 99.99% if it weren't for the fact we reject most spammer registration attempts. We have to manually enable editing for legitimate users.
Currently you don’t want any help or contributions? Alright. Bye
The registration page clearly states that new users have no editing ability, and have to be approved after registration.
This makes it clear the issue is not a bug, but by design.
Yet you reported it as a 'definite bug' within ten minutes of registering on the wiki (which is hardly a reasonable time to expect us to manually approve you).
Hence, it's absolutely clear that you didn't have the courtesy to read the notice we placed on the registration page for exactly this reason.
We are in the late stages of the project and the documentation is mostly up to date. When it was explained that we have to manually enable your account for editing, you didn't ask to be enabled, so we can only assume that you weren't interested. From my perspective I'm rather dubious that you would be able to make any contribution(s) as until recently you were using v3.7 code and using v3.6.1 documentation.
Little hint: I may not be the only one who missed it...
That is your prerogative. You have just lost a potential contributor, and likely a hundred more who have not posted about it. The error I was going to fix is still in, and in fact while looking for it I found several tens of further references to it. Good luck finding and fixing it (and all the other errors) without contributors.
If a potential contributor isn't willing to wait a day to submit changes then so be it. The simple arithmetic is that the amount of help we lose (if any) would be far exceeded by the amount of time we would spend removing spammer submissions. This is not a belief; it is a fact. So in fact we have lost nothing as if you had been able to do your edit the minute you signed up, so would 1,000 spammers, and our workload for fixing their crap would well exceed whatever you would have contributed in that small window.
If we can find a way to avoid that then well and good however at this point the edit lock is the most effective solution.