Is there a way I can have more than one screen name in my wiki account?
I just tried to create a new account for my character, but wiki wouldn't accept a new account with the sam email address. So, do I have to create a new email address for each new wiki account? (that really limits the number of characters.) Or is there maybe a way to have more than one screen names with the same wiki account?
I couldn't find anything in the wiki help.
And - I dunno if you changed it on purpose but:
I tried to create a new account for my splendid character (which shouldn't be called "Xavie", obviously). But new members have to apply to the page, you don't have to enter the password any longer. Instead you have to wait for an admin to approve you.
It's not like I'd want to build a dozen more characters in the next week, I just would like to get one with this one. Still, I find it a bit annoying. Do you really think this protection is necessary?
Anyway, would be nice of you to allow my Lyssan to enter the game :o)
*I* think the protection is necessary, since it's a wiki. Ron set it up so that you can edit everyone's stuff (I believe he said it was an all or nothing deal, you couldn't have just some sections editable). I suggested to him that if we went with the all editing, we try and secure the site a bit. I seriously doubt anyone would mess around with it…but I'd hate to log in one day and see all our game posts missing or altered because some pre-teen was bored.
This wiki thing is very strange. My character had been there, on the board, all the time. I just didn't know. I did't know where to look for him. You have to do (and can do!) all the things on your own. Strange, very strange…
But…isn't it a good strange? Yeah, I think it just takes a little bit for the board to process new people (so that they show up on the left).
Heh, "the board" doesn't process new people at all. New members get added to the "Site members" page that's accessed by the link at the bottom of the sidebar, but the links in the handy "Members…" drop-down menu I was just adding myself. Which anyone can do.
As far as multiple logins go, yeah, you need a separate email address for each account. Personally, I don't see why you need to log in as your character — part of the reason I tried (unsuccessfully) to encourage everyone to use their real names as their screen names was to shift the focus away from "my character" and toward "our project" — but I understand it's traditional to do so.
I've enabled invitations, so if you want to go to the trouble of setting up a new account, you can invite yourself to become a member of the site.
WAIT….you mean you and "the board" aren't the same entity?
;)
but the links in the handy "Members…" drop-down menu I was just adding myself. Which anyone can do.
Yes, I found that one after a while :o)
About screen names… It is a tradition, true, to log with the character name. But to me it makes sense that the character name is displayed along with each game post. So you know immediately the point of view when you are reading posts. It also makes it easier to find certain posts when you are looking for something Queen Aldith said or did a week ago.
Thanks for changing the application/invitation process again! :o)