This is really rather confusing. Where do I sign the CLA to access the wiki?
One can sign the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement at
https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/
If you click “edit profile”, you should see an “Agreements” tab.
That gets you the “CLA” (old name for the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement). The “+1” required to be able to edit the wiki means that you also need to be sponsored to one other Fedora group—it’s a spam prevention measure since being sponsored to a group will require a human to vet your profile.
If you’re not active in a particular Fedora team where you may be able to get sponsored to a group, you can ask the Fedora Join SIG—they provide temporary memberships to people to help with things like this:
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@ankursinha, that’s rather a shame, since it also means that no user can utilise MediaWiki’s star functionality to watch a page for updates, nor modify account-specific accessibility preferences, etcetera.
Why was login prevention chosen in the stead of denying wiki modification privileges? I ask because this is the sole example of the former I’ve seen, and the flagship MW instance - Wikipedia (and its cohort) - regularly restrict modification, but never prevent login.
My understanding was that one can login and read the wiki etc, but not modify pages. Are you not able to login to the wiki using your Fedora account?
This page says:
“Note that you’ll need a Fedora account and to be in at least one Fedora subproject group on that account to make wiki edits.”
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@ankursinha, indeed, I’m not, despite having signed the CLA:
The MW login page [1] looks very broken, too:
Clicking that “0” button redirects me back to the same URI.
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Could you try in a private window please, just in case it’s a caching issue? If that doesn’t work, perhaps the wiki’s user database has not yet synchronised with the account system’s. I expect it’s done at regular intervals. We can file an issue with fedora-infrastructure about this—when did you sign the FPCA please (how long has it been)?
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Appears to have been - I can authenticate now, both in a new about:profiles profile, and my old one. Thanks.
A few hours ago, although I had definitely signed it in the past too. Perhaps it was on another account. Does it ever expire?
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I don’t know—maybe it has some automated account deletion built into it for inactive accounts to comply with privacy laws? Not sure.
I’m glad it works now. Please do let us know if you’d like to edit the wiki and we can get you membership to the Fedora Join group etc.
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@ankursinha, I’d love to.
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Come and visit us at chat.fedoraproject.org in the Join SIG channel and one of us will add you ASAP
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All done, you are in the Fedora Join FAS group now and should be able to edit the wiki:
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Thank you both, @theprogram and @ankursinha.
Though, what is the FJ Matrix channel’s ID? I see the Libera IRC ID, but it doesn’t appear to be particularly discoverable via your Element instance’s GUI.
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Found it: matrix.to/#/%23join%3Afedoraproject.org?via=fedora.im&via=matrix.org&via=4d2.org. [1] Apologies.
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Got the undermentioned when trying to authenticate at fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Firefox_Hardware_acceleration&oldid=709238 the first time I tried: [1]
<html data-lt-installed="true"><head> <title>504 Gateway Timeout</title> </head><body data-new-gr-c-s-check-loaded="8.929.0" data-gr-ext-installed=""> <h1>Gateway Timeout</h1> <p>The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.</p>
It didn’t occur the second time, so gosh knows whether it’s useful to anyone.
There have been a bunch of bots scraping and basically DDOSing various sites across the web including Fedora, quite possibly training all the new baby and not so baby LLMs, so that might be the source of the error.
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@theprogram, that makes sense. Recently, that was happening really badly to GNOME, until they implemented Anubis:
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