[pydotorg-www] Help accessing wiki.python.org

[Paul Boddie]

On Wednesday 7. January 2015 01.59.56 Robert Lugg wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I am having a heck of a time accessing this wiki.  I do have an account and
> can log in to www.python.org as well as on pypi.  Not sure exactly what
> help to ask for L.
> 
> Basically, login on a page asks for name, password, and OpenID.  Regardless
> of what I tried it either sat there for a while, timed out, or told me my
> login is incorrect.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

To edit the wiki you will need a dedicated wiki account. You can either create 
one from scratch by following the link on the login page, or you can use your 
OpenID credentials to identify yourself and associate your OpenID with a wiki 
identity.

I'm not too familiar with the www.python.org account system, but I do have an 
account for PyPI, and you can use your PyPI OpenID to identify yourself to the 
wiki. Take a look at your "user profile" page on PyPI to get information about 
your PyPI OpenID. I have successfully used the long form to log into the 
wiki...

https://pypi.python.org/id/YOUR_PYPI_USERNAME

...but the short form may also work.

Note that you *only* need to fill out the OpenID field in the login form on 
the wiki. I believe I created a patch against MoinMoin to make the login page 
more intuitive (so that you can see that you only need to fill out the OpenID 
field if you choose that mechanism), but I don't believe it ever got 
incorporated into the upstream versions of the software, so we're stuck with a 
somewhat confusing interface for the time being.

The wiki will still make you create an account even if you log in via OpenID. 
This appears to be fairly standard practice: systems like to have their own 
way of identifying people, and it also allows you to associate multiple OpenID 
identities with the same wiki account.

Let us know how you get on!

Paul