Wiki login

[Zengo]

Is it possible to change this back to the way it used to be were you didn't have to log in to read the wiki?
I'm not sure why this change was put in.
Thanks.

 

[fuwok]

This change is to keep out spidering bots and other misusers from sucking up all the system resources through the wiki and I think it is probably here to stay.

 

[darksabbath]

It takes like 30 seconds to create an account, even less to log in, I fail to see the problem...

 

[Rari]

It should be reverted back to 'normal' next week at least on a temporary basis. In the meantime, creating an account is simple, free, and will allow you to log in and use the wiki normally (and even set some custom features and edit pages too!) and you can select 'leave me logged in' so you'll only need to log in once unless you clear cookies. Plus this will allow you to edit pages.

Anon-access was turned off when the wiki went down two days in a row (and not the super-slow-agonizing-to-load-but-still-will-load-if-you're-patient sort of down, but just flat out inaccessible) and the second time took the entire webserver with it. This was a better solution than turning the wiki off completely, assuming it continues to prevent the malicious behavior that was killing our systems. We're hoping to update the wiki software this weekend and we will try allowing anon access again once that's completed.