I've got a question, and I cna't find an answer, I don't know if I'm just being incredibly stupid or what.
I have used Wikipedia only a few times since the switch over in scripts. One of the computers I commonly use it from automatically remembers my log in and I don't need to log in. But I'm currently working from a different computer, trying to log in, but the newe script requires a password.
I have no idea what my password is, I don't think I even set one, UseMod didn't require it. I have been unable to log in.
Shockingly I have had no luck finding any "help logging in" page, maybe nobody else has any problem?
Please help me out here!
Try something like this:
login, gave new username, enter new password - it will create new user with password. Remember to turn cookies in in your browser. szopen
Problem is, I have no desire to change my username. Is there no way to recover lost passwords? (Or non-existent passwords?) And why do we need passwords anyway, unless there for an admin. I think UseMod was as secure as it needed to be.
Maybe there was a default password for those of us who had no password under the old script that I can try?
Please someone help me out here, I feel incredibly stupid.
- So far as I can tell, it is a problem. I try occasionally to log in on my computer at work; it always fails. I do know what my password is. Sounds like a feature request. Koyaanis Qatsi
- To find out the password you forgot, go to the computer that logs you in automatically, look in the cookie file, and search for WikiUserPassword. Once you have your password, use it to log in from the other computer and make sure to check "remember my password as a cookie" 207.171.93.45
- It works! Thanks!
The Search facility ignores short words. This is usually a good thing, but sometimes the short word is actually meaningful.
For example, the word "go" refers to a popular board game, yet cannot be found by searching for "go". It is actually indexed under a funny internal name that translates to "Go (board game)".
Could someone here please contact the person who maintains the Search facility and pass on my observation? David 13:05 Aug 2, 2002 (PDT)
I just read some more in the Help pages, and I see the explanation that "Go (board game)" is better than "Go" because "Go" can have other meanings. This makes sense to me. David 09:56 Aug 3, 2002 (PDT)
I've rearranged and changed the Help page with the aim of making it more logical and friendly for new users. I'm also moving a few items, such as press coverage, to the FAQ.
There is still a lot more that could be done to make this page more useful. For example, we have no good instructions on how to log in and set preferences, or on how to upload images. Here's a suggested to-do list:
- Wikipedia:How to log in and set preferences
- Wikipedia:How to include images in articles
- Wikipedia:How to keep track of recent changes (cover recent changes, watch lists, list of new articles)
- Wikipedia:How to include sound in articles
- Wikipedia:How to move articles
- Nice work. I will take a look at this and tweak it some later. --mav
Since the FAQ and the Policies are the two main other documents refered to from both Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers and Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia, it seems to me that the policies join the FAQ at the top of the help page. If you don't like the change, hey sue me, block my IP address, or just change it back :) I realize it's somewhat presumptious for a newbie to be editing high profile pages such as the Help and FAQ, but I feel it's needed. The help page has many links, each with many further links, forming a broad and deep tree of a huge number of documents, and the important information needs to be near the top of that tree, otherwise it's not going to be easy to find. -roy