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Just to ask, my membership to the wiki has been pending for months...
Is there any problem or is this normal?
Jules

You shouldn't need approval to edit the wiki - just joining the group is enough.

I have and it put's the wiki under my user groups under the section: "Pending memberships" and after about 2 months I still can't long into the wiki...
Jules

Hi all,

Ditto -- been on the 'pending' list for ages, and I can't log in. I'd just like to fix the MikeOS entry here:

http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects#M

It's not 'mostly DOS compatible' (it has very rudimentary DOS compatibility) and isn't in the process of being ported to the C64. If anyone with wiki access can make that quick change, I'd be very grateful!

Cheers,
Mike

I've changed mostly DOS compatible to "has rudimentary DOS compatibility", and removed the C64 part. That OK or do you need anything else changing too?

That's great -- thanks Alex.

M

To have access to edit wiki you have to do it through this forum. It didn't take me long to edit stuff. I don't know why some of you take so long to get access. I don't know if g-mods give that permission. If they did they must of forgetting about it

I applied quite a while ago...should I send one of the mods a message asking for them to please check their pending wiki memberships or would that be to rude?

Thanks.

Thanks, I can now log on to the wiki...
It might have happened quite sometime ago, haven't been able to log on in a bit...
Thanks,

Jules

I also applied for wiki editing rights some weeks ago, but nothing happened up to now. Why is wiki write access that restrictive anyways? Isn't the idea of a wiki to facilitate contributions from bypassers? With the current hurdles you're really discouraging most contributors from improving the wiki's contents even if wiki editing rights were granted right after applying for them. But if you additionally wait weeks or months until you grant access, only the most tenacious developers will end up editing contents. I doubt that's your intention -- but if it is, please at least make that clear from the very beginning. (I wouldn't be wasting my time applying in the first place.)

I already stumbled upon several things I'd like to correct -- e.g. 'In GCC the "--nobuiltin" flag tells GCC to not use pre-existing builtin functions such as memcpy.' on the "C" page is plain wrong, and the "Global Objects" section on the "C_PlusPlus" page is also somewhere between vague and incorrect in several details. But I'm not going to use the indirection of this forum to find someone with time to do the changes.