how to sign in/sign up for wiki?

Post by **hurleybird** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:05 pm

This probably sounds stupid, but I tried to sign in to the wiki under hurleybird or userhurlybird but it didnt work. it says i need a wiki-word. Im guessing this is a word in the wiki. Hurleybird is in the wiki, but it still doesent work.

help?

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:25 pm

This really frustrated me when I first tried to do it.

Try UserHurleybird, I think that ought to work

Post by **hurleybird** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:28 pm

Ah, i forgot the capital... thanks PeteyG!

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:14 pm

peteyg wrote:This really frustrated me when I first tried to do it.

Try UserHurleybird, I think that ought to work

Yes this should work just fine.
A wiki word basically looks like this:
WikiWordWithAlotOfCapitalLetters

And the User on the beginnig is to speperate the normal content from the users editing the wiki.
So the user list would lok like this:
UserPontiac
UserPeteyg
UserHurleybird
etc...

@all: I really ask everybody who has signed in with a 'normal' username to add the "User" to the beginning of his name.

Thanks,
Pontiac

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:04 pm

I think there is some prohibition on ending your wikiword with a capital letter. UserPeteyG isn't an acceptable word, for example (which caused me quite a bit of confusion when I was first trying to sign in)

Post by **hurleybird** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:44 am

I also think using two capitals in a row makes it not work. For example link vsPeteygShipyard works but vsPeteyGShipyard does not.

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:40 pm

hurleybird wrote:I also think using two capitals in a row makes it not work. For example link vsPeteygShipyard works but vsPeteyGShipyard does not.

definiton of wiki words:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CamelCase
and the implemention in phpwiki:
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/WikiWords

pontiac