Goliath F. Monthly's dashboard

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. – Rachel Pennig, on May 02, 2008 17:08

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. – Guy Fawkes, on May 02, 2008 16:38

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! – Rachel Pennig, on May 02, 2008 15:13

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.

Good news! A request access feature is under construction for PBwiki 2.0. Thanks for letting us know you wanted this!

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 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.

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 to XP 1.0.

"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.

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.

It's a long story but have a look at this demo page to find a solution, maybe. Or go here to see it in action, just watch the upper right corner, hahaha!
It's by far perfect, what can I say? You won't be able to tell who wrote in your wiki ...