how to get edit permissions on wiki?

TomRoche
How does one get edit permissions on the wiki? Why I ask:

I pulled up a journal article which Zotero 2.0.3 (on FF 3.5.9 on Ubuntu 9.10) failed to pull in. So I thought, I'll try creating a translator. After searching a bit, it seemed the best way to begin was to use Crymble's downlevel "How to Write a Zotero Translator" as a guide, but using current tools (e.g. DOM Inspector, XPather, new Scaffold). Along the way, I've noticed at least one other annoyance (

http://niche.uwo.ca/member-projects/zotero-guide/

fails, but

http://niche-canada.org/member-projects/zotero-guide/

) works, so I thought, "why not start a new wiki page to wikify, and thus maintain, an updated version of Crymble, initially recording the deltas required to do the tasks now?" I created a wiki account and logged into

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_translators_for_sites

which I tried to edit to create a link to a non-existent page. But no love: I get no edit-page button. So I tried just creating a new page, URI=

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/how_to_write_a_zotero_translator_++

But no love again: I get no create-page button. So I'm wondering, what does one need to do to edit the wiki?
  • adamsmith
    First of all - updating and wikifying that documentation would be a _tremendous_ service to the community, so thanks a ton for that!

    You've seen this page I take it?
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/writing_documentation

    So you already have a separate wiki account. If you're logged in, at the bottom of this page:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_translators_for_sites
    (for example) you should see:
    Logged in as: Tom Roche (TomRoche)
    and just below that an "Edit this Page" button.

    Where does this fail?
  • TomRoche
    At the bottom of the example page, I see

    > dev/creating_translators_for_sites.txt · Last modified: 2010/04/07 09:23 by andrewbrown

    > Driven by DokuWiki

    > Home | Blog | Forums | Developers | Support | Privacy Policy | Get Involved | About Zotero

    > Zotero is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
    > © Copyright 2009, Center for History and New Media

    At the top of that page, I see

    > Welcome TomRoche | Inbox | Profile | Settings | Logout

    adamsmith 2 Jul 10
    > So you already have a separate wiki account.

    I'm pretty sure--how to check? FWIW when I do Zotero>Preferences I get Username=<my email/> which is the email I used for the account I made yesterday with username=TomRoche.
  • adamsmith
    See
    "Creating an Wiki Account" and

    "Logging in"
    on this page:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/writing_documentation
    note that wiki account and Zotero account are separate.

    What you see on the top of the page means that you're logged into your Zotero account, it's independent of the wiki account.
  • TomRoche
    Done. For future reference, it's confusing to be told, by a wiki page that one is logged in with one set of credentials at the top of the page, and another set of credentials at the bottom. But it's working now.
  • adamsmith
    I completely agree - it's quite confusing.
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