I never thought that I would hate so much to work with wiki. I think that wiki.co.il (and no, typing wiki.co.il will not take you to the website, only www.wiki.co.il will! ) is one of the most confusing and not user friendly websites I’ve used in a while.
I will not start describing all my issues with it, but I would really appreciate if someone could help me understand how it works. So here is where I’m stuck.
I’ve created a user in the website, and I’ve created a page (kmwork.wiki.co.il), and I’ve even managed to invite my team members to make changes to this website. So far so good (although it was not simple at all), but here is a puzzle.
I go to the main www.wiki.co.il page, and try to login with my account (which I’m using for a week now), and this is what I get:
So, maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’ve been dreaming all this week and I don’t have an account?
But no, here is kmwork.wiki.co.il
Ok, so this is a mystery, but it is not over yet.
I remember wiki making me to create a general wiki account that should let me login to the main page with vvvlad username. So let’s try using it. Yep, it worked,
and now I’m logged in with vvvlad to the main page on wiki.co.il and this is probably the all system account I should use, right? But NO!!!
When I try to use it on kmwork.wiki.co.il this is what I get:
Excuse my French, but WTF???!!!
Does this means that each web gets separate account? WHY, oh WHY?
Ok, so last mystery for today, here is my page URL : kmwork.wiki.co.il right? You know it is there, and I know it is there, but does wiki.co.il knows?
Nope! So, maybe I’m stupid, and I’m looking for a wrong value, maybe I should be looking for one of the pages and not the main sub domain, right?
Our wiki has this page http://kmwork.wiki.co.il/index.php/GKMF, so it should be found….I was so much hopeful it would, but…
Where should we go from here? Not to wiki.co.il, that’s for sure.
Vlad out.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteOk I agree, it really looked confusing to me too. After spending some time on this mystery I did come to this conclusions.
ReplyDelete1. There are different types of wiki accounts.
2. There is a Basic wiki account you create at http://www.wiki.co.il using top menu 'Login /Create account'.
See my post 'Wiki Basic Account Creation' at http://wikiskydocs.wiki.co.il/index.php/Wiki_Basic_Account_Creation, for detailed instructions.
You may use this account just from Home page www.wiki.co.il.
Pages you create using this account have an address form as: http://www.wiki.co.il/index.php/page123.
You may use Home page http://www.wiki.co.il search box to find 'page123'
3. There is a Group Site account you create at http://www.wiki.co.il main window, pink square, saying 'Wiki for a Group'.
See my post 'Wiki Group Site Creation' at http://wikiskydocs.wiki.co.il/index.php/Wiki_Group_Site_Creation, for detailed instructions.
This account is site related (the site you create) and has nothig o do with your Basic wiki account mentioned above.
To use this type account You need open first your Group Site address and then use top menu 'Login' option.
Pages you create using this account have an address form as: wikisite123.wiki.co.il.
Pages created, using Group Site type account, can not be searched from Home page http://www.wiki.co.il.
The user that creates first a Group Site has some extra Sysop permissions, permissions he may grant to other users.
I hope this helped to clarify some of the mystery.