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Wide-open writer permissions: can I do that? How?
I want anyone who knows the name of my wiki to have writer permission (because it's for students *and* prospective students, and I won't know who all of the prospective students are before they want to access the wiki, so issuing one-by-one invitations won't work for me).
How do I do that? And if I can't do that, what is the closest I can come to it?
How do I do that? And if I can't do that, what is the closest I can come to it?
I’m increasingly boggled that I might have to enter hundreds of users one a time. Tell me that's not the case!
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Inappropriate?For the record, it's a 2.0 wiki (1.0 is unacceptable for other reasons), I have the Gold package, and this issue is big enough that I will absolutely have to cancel it if there is no workaround. -
Inappropriate?Jill,
The closest you can come is to:
1) Create an "dummy" account, and publish the email/password on the Front Page
2) Place instructions on the Front Page, telling new users to
a) Log in with the "dummy" account
b) Invite themselves
c) log out of the dummy account
d) reply to the invitation email, and join the wiki
At that point, they will have their own account. Feel free to give it a try over at the V2.0 Forum Demo Wiki.
Just out of curiousity, what other reasons make V1.0 unacceptable? -
Inappropriate?Thanks, Guy, but that is a ridiculously high barrier to participation and just won't do. I'll wait to hear from an official pbwiki rep, but if that's the best I can do I'll have to move on to another provider.
1.0 doesn't have the customization I need to make the site fit in with our university's visual style guide.3 Comments
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"I'll wait to hear from an official pbwiki rep" -- Still waiting, huh? -
No, not at all. They've been in touch a couple of times and I'm working with one of their proposed workarounds to see if it will work with me. I'll update this thread when I figure out which one, if any, works for me.
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Thanks, that would be great. Most of the time, we never hear about the successful "behind-the-scenes" solutions.
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Inappropriate?You may want to email support (at) pbwiki (dot) com directly; they are often reticent to discuss shortcomings of this magnitude openly in these forums.
Good luck customizing your V2.0 wiki. -
Inappropriate?ya know if there is a work around that is better than the "dummy" account idea I really would like to know. If you all come up with better work around please let us know. It might even bring more people to pbwiki if you openly share stuff like that. -
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Inappropriate?A couple of interesting work arounds here! Unfortunately as you've noted they are brittle solutions. (For example upcoming changes to some low-level plumbing will probably break Goliath's proposal.)
We really do understand the desire behind these solutions and we're working hard to create ones for PBwiki 2.0 which are robust, secure, and useable.
We love that our users are so determined and creative. Thanks for continually reminding us how important these log-in options are to the community.
While the official answer right now is "No" there's no supported way to do this in PBwiki 2.0, discussions like this one keep our feet to the fire. -
Inappropriate?"Unfortunately as you've noted they are brittle solutions."
Unfortunately, with PBwiki, that's the only kind. They'll find Osama bin Laden before V2.0 gets a useable login system.
I’m wondering what the hell they're thinking?
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Inappropriate?Thanks Ian, for your reply. In the meantime there's two more questions here for writing in a 2.0 wiki without an Account: #1 & #2. Remember the days that PBwiki told us to switch from the old board to GS for a better search function?
You better hurry @ fixing, otherwise 2.0 will go Bye Bye Hasta La Vista: nobody wants it or can use it and want to revert toXP1.0. -
Inappropriate?I haven't learned anything that hasn't been posted here. The ticket is closed and I give up. I believe I've found another provider who can do everything I want. Once I confirm that I'll be moving on.
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Inappropriate?Jill -
what provider is that?
This is enough to make me move as well.
I expected to be able to have my community easily write in our wiki, once we gave them the name of the wiki. The fact that people can't easily edit without being given indivudal permission makes this wiki not useable for our purposes.
Nor can I find understandable help instructions as to what other options there are.
dale
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Good news! A request access feature is under construction for PBwiki 2.0. Thanks for letting us know you wanted this!
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That's nice, but if users have to *request* access, then that means someone has to *grant* access, and that's just as bad. I can't recall a single post here at GS where anyone let you know that this was a desired feature, so perhaps you're receiving those requests privately.
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The "Request Access" feature is just the first step in a larger plan to meet the needs of our users. We have other solutions that will be implemented as this develops that should meet the needs as described above.
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Inappropriate?I hate to bring up their competitors on their own wiki, but I guess that's the nature of the beast. I'm going to editme.com.
Rachel, thanks, but as you know that's only one piece of the puzzle, and is under construction but not available now.1 Comment Add a comment
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Hi Jill - completely understandable- you need to get work done! I just wanted to let you know we are working on it, so I hope you come back and try PBwiki in the future!
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