May 17, 2004 - There's a new feature to help identify users who make changes to a page.
It's based on cookies.
- Go to http://mini.net/wru.cgi and enter your initials (up to 8 letters/digits) and email address.
- You'll receive an email with a confirmation URL in it.
- Visiting that URL will lead you to a page which sets a cookie in your browser.
- From them on, page changes will be tagged with your initials on the Recent Changes page.
Note:
- If you use wiki.tcl.tk as URL, you'll have to set things up through http://wiki.tcl.tk/wru.cgi instead.
- If you use both, you'll need to go through this exercise twice (sorry, that's a cookie limitation).
- This also works with dynamic IP's, the initial origin when registering is not enforced, just mentioned.
FYI:
- The cookie contains initials, email address, IP address of request, and a special checksum.
- It's used for precisely one purpose: to maintain a minimal identity / traceability, in page edits.
- There is no database (just a log), this stores data in your browser, not on this site.
RHS 24Nov2004 Is the code to handle this functionality available for public consumption. I see that the newer versions of wikit have code to recognize user names (wru changes), but the wru.cgi and whatever the file named in $env(WIKIT_WRU) are both unavailable. I ask because I'd like to have this functionality for a wiki I help maintain, and I'd rather not have to reinvent the wheel.
TV I tried this after a system reinstall, but I receive no email! Is the method still valid? Of course I could dig in my backup files for the right cookie but there might be more persons experiencing difficulty!
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