No way to reset wiki password

mcarans · Post by **mcarans** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:34 pm

I made a mistake of not changing the wiki password that was messaged to me when I first got a wiki account. I made a bigger mistake of deleting that message.

I still have a cookie so can edit the wiki probably until that cookie expires. I cannot change the password in preferences, because you have to type in the old password.

There is no password reset facility available in the wiki that emails a new password to you. I tried messaging Selezen - as moderator, he does not have the rights. I emailed Ahruman in the hope he might still have the message he sent me in his sent items, but unfortunately he deleted it. Apparently only Winston can do something, but so far, I can see that he has read my message, but I have no response.

While I accept that it is my fault for not being more careful, I think this huge difficulty in getting something basic like this sorted out will discourage people from editing and updating the wiki. Does anyone have any idea what I can do or is the only solution in the absence of a reply from Winston to request a new account with a different username?

Post by **Kaks** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:53 pm

As answered in the other thread: delete old account, create a new one. Both Selezen & Ahruman can do that.

mcarans · Post by **mcarans** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:12 pm

Kaks wrote:
As answered in the other thread: delete old account, create a new one. Both Selezen & Ahruman can do that.

Thanks. I have asked Selezen.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:42 am

Kaks wrote:
As answered in the other thread: delete old account, create a new one. Both Selezen & Ahruman can do that.

An admin can only delete users if the appropriate extension has been installed, as far as I'm aware.

Is there something I'm missing on the wiki?

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:25 am

Selezen wrote:
Kaks wrote:
As answered in the other thread: delete old account, create a new one. Both Selezen & Ahruman can do that.
An admin can only delete users if the appropriate extension has been installed, as far as I'm aware.

Is there something I'm missing on the wiki?

I think you should be able to delete users. Try either looking on the User List page or on the list of Special Pages?

Post by **Kaks** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:01 pm

Hmm, I seem I spoke too soon. But as it says there you should be able to at least rename the old user account to something convenient, either using the included renaming plugin, or with the manual method mentioned here. Sorry about my misguiding comments, I thought deleting was possible with the standard installation...

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:50 pm

That's what I thought. Soz, mcarans, for the moment you'll need to create a new account. And DON'T FORGET THE PASSWORD!!

If the server owner (WWIIIIIINNNSSSTTOOOONNN!!) can install this extension then we can reset passwords. Alternatively, this one will allow user deletion.

Either will help.

mcarans · Post by **mcarans** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:35 am

I've messaged Winston to ask him to install these extensions. Let's see if he responds.

If he's really not interested in administering the wiki anymore, in the long term, the unthinkable might need to be considered - finding or creating a new Mediawiki host.

mcarans · Post by **mcarans** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:50 am

mcarans wrote:
winston wrote:
Hi,

It's probably better if I just give them ssh access to the machine so they can poke it too. I've not had time for any of my projects for the last couple of weeks...

Cheers.
Hi Winston,

Ok please do that. I appreciate it.

Thanks,
Mike

Good news above.

mcarans · Post by **mcarans** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:15 pm

winston wrote:
Hi,

For SSH access there's rather a lot of work to be done, the wiki needs to be moved back to its proper server etc.

Your password incidentally has been reset to the one you requested. Sorry for the delay. Toomanyprojectitus.

So I can log into the wiki again.

But as for getting wiki extensions, this will take a while as "the wiki needs to be moved back to its proper server etc."