I attempted to do this. At first I was getting the message:
This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your edit was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: New editors cannot create pages
In order to not be a “new user” it appears that you have to have made at least one edit in the LessWrong Wiki. I’m far from convinced that the LW Wiki actually needs an article on quantum mechanics, but it’s got one now. I then managed to successfully create a wiki page.
Overall I would rate this process moderately difficult and surprisingly time consuming. If this is something that anyone expects a significant number of people to do, it might be worth it to make it easier or write a guide.
Yea, the current wiki signup system is far from ideal. Unfortunately spambots are a plague on wikis. A single sign on between main LW accounts would solve both spam (and better than the current setup) and the need for signing in twice, but that requires someone to implement it. There is an extension for MW, but I’m not sure how well it’d fit with the reddit based login. Maybe it’d work fine out of the box, maybe it’d be annoying.
As for your userpage not showing up.. that’s odd. hmm.. I’d guess it was the old MW does not allow lowercase first usernames issue again (my userpage is also not showing up, and i have a lcfirst name), but gwern’s seems to work so it’s not that? Maybe it takes a while before first update?
I seem to remember that I had comparable problems and that the cause was that I was a new user or that indeed a first edit was needed. I was told that the sync takes some timethere is a bot which does that nightly or some such.
I attempted to do this. At first I was getting the message:
This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your edit was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: New editors cannot create pages
This appears to be due to the abuse filter:
In order to not be a “new user” it appears that you have to have made at least one edit in the LessWrong Wiki. I’m far from convinced that the LW Wiki actually needs an article on quantum mechanics, but it’s got one now. I then managed to successfully create a wiki page.
With that being said, I’m still unclear as to how to make my LessWrong profile link to the Wiki. My user page http://lesswrong.com/user/leplen/ still redirects me to http://lesswrong.com/user/leplen/overview and there is no obvious reload from wiki button.
Overall I would rate this process moderately difficult and surprisingly time consuming. If this is something that anyone expects a significant number of people to do, it might be worth it to make it easier or write a guide.
Yea, the current wiki signup system is far from ideal. Unfortunately spambots are a plague on wikis. A single sign on between main LW accounts would solve both spam (and better than the current setup) and the need for signing in twice, but that requires someone to implement it. There is an extension for MW, but I’m not sure how well it’d fit with the reddit based login. Maybe it’d work fine out of the box, maybe it’d be annoying.
As for your userpage not showing up.. that’s odd. hmm.. I’d guess it was the old MW does not allow lowercase first usernames issue again (my userpage is also not showing up, and i have a lcfirst name), but gwern’s seems to work so it’s not that? Maybe it takes a while before first update?
That seems to be working now.
Yes.
I seem to remember that I had comparable problems and that the cause was that I was a new user or that indeed a first edit was needed. I was told that the sync takes some timethere is a bot which does that nightly or some such.