How to get permission to edit wiki pages?

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
If it's possible to edit that page!  It might need super powers to edit
something like that one!

If you can do it then it might be really helpful though :)
Regards from
Tom :)

On 20 November 2014 18:24, David Beasley <david at beasley.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> It was a bit more tricky than expected. The instructions on
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide/Registration didnt work for
> me. It says:
>
> If you have a Ubuntu One account, but no Launchpad account
>
>     Go to https://login.launchpad.net/
>     Insert your Ubuntu One credentials
>     Click "Update" to create a Launchpad account linked to your Ubuntu One
> account
>
> I put in my email address and password, and clicked "Login". But there is
> no "Update" button. It doesnt look to me as if any new Launchpad account
> has being created - it just seems that I am logging in to Ubuntu One, and
> that's all. I cannot see any option to create a Launchpad account.
>
> I experimented a bit, and finally worked it out.
>
> I went to https://launchpad.net - NOT login.launchpad.net
> This gave me a Launchpad page, not an UbuntuOne page.
> Then I clicked "log in/register"
> I got an Ubuntu One login page. I clicked Login button
> This took me back to the Launchpad Home page, and hey presto, I now have a
> Launchpad usename! And now, at last I have an Edit button on the wiki pages!
>
> Maybe I should edit the WikiGuide/Registration page?
>
> Cheers,
> 3-david-o
>
> On 19/11/2014 14:56, Tom Davies wrote:
>
>> Hi :)
>> Great to hear you fixed it! :)  Thanks for letting us know how too
>> because that is a very non-intuitive set of conditions.
>>
>> Yeh, the Ubuntu One thing is a bit of a mess right now but hopefully
>> that will get sorted out fairly soon.  It would have been a great
>> approach if it had worked out as envisaged but part of the price of
>> progress is that sometimes a great path turns out to have been a wrong
>> turn.  This one is proving a tad tricky to disentangle ourselves from.
>> Sorry about that!
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>
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