Help talk:Getting Started

Shouldn't the "first thing to do" be "create a username and log on"? :) Ahasuerus 03:40, 21 Dec 2006 (CST)

Um, yeah. Done. Please feel free to make edits like these yourself, if you want to -- I don't have any "pride of ownership" in these help pages, and I know they'll improve if we all collaborate. Mike Christie (talk) 09:00, 21 Dec 2006 (CST)

It's been my experience with maintaining Wikipedia articles that the worst offenders are well meaning but clueless editors who try to improve "my" articles by dragging them down to their own level. I figure it's better to double check -- even if I am 95% sure that I am right -- rather than find myself in their shoes :) Ahasuerus 11:16, 21 Dec 2006 (CST)

I did not know that creating a wiki account would automatically create an ISFDB account. Testing this by following the offered link to create an account called isfdb test did create the wiki account got gets "Login failed: Bad user name" on the ISFDB side of things. Marc Kupper 21:21, 21 Dec 2006 (CST)

A follow-up on this – the ISFDB control panel has an option called “Public editing” though I don’t know exactly what it does. The page What's_New_from_2005 says it was planned to tie ISFDB logins to the wiki - maybe that gets enabled as part of public editing? The following comment is the only one I could find about user logins though. Marc Kupper 23:20, 21 Dec 2006 (CST)

1. In order to make the ISFDB self-sufficient in 2006, and to work through editing and moderator issues that might arise, I plan on having public editing capabilities no later than the end of March.
2. Items currently standing in the way of public editing capabilities:

• Database architecture - The current schema works mostly okay for both display and editing purposes - except in the area of pseudonyms. As such, some de-normalization needs to take place.
• User management - I don't currently have a system in place to manage user logins, although I may piggyback on the ISFDB Wiki capabilities.