Talk:Request for an account on the Foundation wiki/Archives/2005

Wikimedia Hosting in the USA

Please create a User Account for me, if necessary.

I am considering hosting a public Wiki, as my server is pretty responsive. I am considering the possibility of providing Wikimedia Hosting and development for those interested in Corporate Wiki's with an approval system.

Requested Username:weide e-mail adress:wikipediaromana(a)888WebGuru.com reason: I want to manage a User's Group in the USA.

Ken Weide wikipediaromana(a)888WebGuru.com US/Canada Toll Free: 1-888-932-4878 011-01-972-660-4596

This can be discussed on Meta, or on the mailing lists. The Foundation wiki is not for discussion. Angela 06:59, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

How are people supposed to find this?

There should be links from appropriate places on the Foundation wiki, such as the login page, the page that appears if you try to edit when not logged in, and the membership page. Brianjd 02:55, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)

The feedback page is linked from the foundation wiki, and that page links here. The board's email address is also on every edit page, so people could use that instead. Angela

I think there are 2 things users are likely to look at, and this page is not one of them:

• Email - either from the edit page, or from the "contact us" page.
• The membership page.

I don't think they will go to the "main page" discussion page. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:23, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)

They could use email, which might not be a problem, except that we have this page as well, and why would we want users using two methods to contact the Board about this issue? Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 06:24, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)

This page is now linked from Wikimedia:MediaWiki:Loginprompt so users will see it if they try to log in. Angela

Let's remove some requests!

Why are the requests "piling up"? First, we need to request an account on a page we can't find, then it takes a long time for our requests to be looked at! Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 02:52, 2005 Mar 15 (UTC)

I think emails should be sent to those whose requests were rejected and the requests moved to the archive page rather than an archive section. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 08:06, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

I've no objection to old requests being removed. Angela 07:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Traduzione

Salve a tutti...mi piacerebbe avere un account ma non ho idea di dove richiederlo... vorrei segnalare un possibile errore nella versione italiana al link http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Informazioni_su_Wikimedia , nel seguente punto: "Possediamo già sia alcuni dei nostri nomi di dominio attivi, sia alcuni di quelli secondari o tangenzialmente correlati, mentre altri sono ancora liberi i già posseduti da terzi. ".

Forse dovrebbe essere una o? Se foste cosi' gentili da rispondermi anche in merito ad un account...grazie...

Feddar <mailto:wiki@biazzi.org> --82.112.213.66 15:29, 1 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Grazie per la segnalazione, ho provveduto alla correzione. --M/ 20:38, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Talk Pages

I was quite surprised to discover I couldn't comment on a Talk page without creating an account, and I can't create an account without being an admin on one of the foundation's sites (which I'm not). Wouldn't it be better to allow Talk page comments by any wikipedia registered user even if the content pages are locked?

On a seperate but kind of related note, I'm perplexed as to why the foundation hasn't moved to single accounts for the whole network. I'm running about 10 wikis on my local machine with a single installation, single configuration file and a shared users table, and it's working great! --Kingboyk 16:40, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

You're running 10 wikis, we're running a few hundred, each with thousands of editors. It would leave the projects down for at least a day, in my estimation. -- user:zanimum