Tossing this one onto (suitable) list, because ... well, why not! :-)
From: "Rick Moen" rick@linuxmafia.com Subject: Re: Login to BALUG Wiki Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:57:40 -0800
Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
Seems more logical would to have that information on the "self-"registration wiki page ... otherwise folks may not see it anyway.
After successful login, I put a notice on https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php , near the top.
Thanks ... I also tweaked the language (very) slightly just for slightly better approximation of (mostly historical) reality.
I ack your point that autoregistrations were few and far between, but lack of any information about how to get a login meant that anyone wanting to help would have no idea how to proceed.
Sorry, but what 'self-' registraiton page? Not sure what this reference is to.
Heck, been so long I forget where the self-registration wiki page even is/was.
I figured manual was "quite good enough" to stop the immediate issue (the high volume of bot registrations was causing the wiki to bog down and fail in annoying ways).
I sympathise.
Restoring login _with_ CAPTCHA plugin would be a 'have your cake and eat it too' solution, IMO -- if/when you get around to it.
Yep *somewhere* on the "todo" list.
Background/history - have a look at: curl -s --range 134225-268633 https://www.archive.balug.org/log.txt And *also* very handy for me too ... looks like I'd *disabled* the registration page - so likely it doesn't show at all, or just won't let one self-register.