Re: Wiki "editor" privileges request

Hi Charles,

Thank you for the suggestion.
Meanwhile I created the new user account and got the permissions for it.

Thank you,
Michael

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Charles Clavadetscher <
clavadetscher(at)swisspug(dot)org> wrote:

> Hello
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@
> postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Michael Goldberg
> > Sent: Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2016 20:17
> > To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
> > Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>; Alvaro Herrera <
> alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>; Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>;
> > PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Wiki "editor" privileges request
> >
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > I did login there. I'm right now logged in.
> > The user was auto created from my community account.
> >
> > I tried to find a way to change the username but unfortunately didn't
> find such option.
>
> There is no such option in a standard MW installation. But there is an
> extension:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser
>
> However, this is not one thing that you can do yourself (install the
> extension and then change the user name). It requires access to the server
> hosting MW and bureaucrat privileges in the wiki itself.
> Maybe one of the admins could look into that. The extension is compatible
> with the MW version of the PG MW (1.19).
>
> Regards
> Charles
>
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Michael
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com <mailto:
> mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12/27/2016 08:33 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > * Joe Conway (mail(at)joeconway(dot)com <mailto:mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> )
> wrote:
> > >> Yeah, I tried various things to escape his username but could
> not find
> > >> anything that would work. I could swear that this happened
> before I I
> > >> found some workaround but I cannot remember what it was :-(
> > >
> > > I believe that if a space is in the username then you can
> address that
> > > with %20 or something, but I couldn't figure out how to make it
> work for
> > > an email address either.
> >
> > That was one of the things I tried.
> >
> > Michael, have you ever logged into the wiki at all with that
> username?
> > If not, please try.
> >
> >
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