CommunityHelpWiki can Not Login to Edit

Problem

In CommunityHelpWiki - Community Help Wiki, when clicking login to edit and after log in from login.ubuntu.com, it shows OpenID error:

Nonce already used or out of range。

I figure out that it’s not my account error cause I can normally log in other Ubuntu’ websites.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on.

You’ve not provided any Launchpad login for us to look, but are you a wiki-editor?

A quick look and it appears you’re not. If you’re a Ubuntu contributor involved with teams, I suggest you speak to team members who are familiar with your work & need for wiki editor status, and they can support your application. Applications with supporting evidence and/or testimonials (from Ubuntu team members) tend to be processed far faster, and evidence is required for permission to be granted (as I understand it).

I’m actually a wiki editor and I’m experiencing also the same since yesterday. I think it is related to the server throwing:

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request. 

When it does not time out and you manage to try to login, then the error reported by the OP is shown. Yesterday I finally managed to login and edit. But today I tried a couple of times and it always times out with the above message.

Do you know a place to report this?

It’s been like this (regular 503 errors) for at least 5 years, sadly. I suspect nobody wants to touch it because the topic of moving the wiki somewhere else (or nuking it from orbit) keeps looming. I don’t know what’s happening with that, but it would be good to get moving.

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You mean, better not edit or use it?

That’s entirely your choice. I just feel it would be nice if we could improve that site and the main wiki. But it seems nobody has the time or inclination to do it.

I suspect it would be a major task to update there.

Looks like a fair bit of information is outdated or perhaps even irrelevant?

As far as errors when trying to access, I had that too when I wanted to edit my wiki page.

But it seems not everyone has that issue, for example @irihapeti mentioned being able to login and edit content.

Maintaining a wiki is certainly a lot of work. My Loco team is still using it for a couple of things, yesterday for a while it went well and I could edit it. We done some cleaning days a couple of years ago for the team pages, but you’re right, it is full of non-maintained pages.

My team also uses the Wiki to maintain reports on events, minutes of team meetings, and a few other things. I have had the same problem, but as Popey has already stated, it has been like this for a while and those of us who use it have lived with it for just as long. There is no logic to when you can edit the pages but persistence pays off in the end.

In any case I just figured out we probably are talking about two different things here:

Are they the same server?

I recommend migrating as time allows your wiki content here to Ubuntu Discourse, it has a built in wiki system and it actually works or possibly Ubuntu.com can hold some of your documentation depending what it is.

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I assume I am not a wiki editor?
Launchpad account

What are the requirements to attain this status?

Are you suggesting that editing/updating the pages referenced so far has no real value or that we should, instead, try to migrate them here (the most relevant ones at least)?

IIRC there were former discussions with the community council where that was already suggested (or even decided for good, i don’t remember exactly) … the discussion should be somewhere here in this discourse category …

Thanks for all reply. I’m just accustomed to login in evey Informative web pages. So it gets me confused when not able to login in to CommunityHelpWiki - Community Help Wiki.
I have searched this forum for the issue without finding relative recent posts. That’s why this post came out looking for some fixes. As wgarcia and popey said, it seems the only solution is to trying and trying logging in…

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It was actually 2y ago (so not that recent for a fruit fly, but recent in the light of eternity :wink: )…

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Thank you, seems my suggestion is not a new one, I do believe this is what everyone should do migrate there wiki’s.

What do you mean?

Taking a look at the Ubuntu Wiki help section I see many, many pages that have not been edited or updated in more than 10 years.

Some of those users are probably no longer around.

Can I, for example, find a wiki page that I would feel confident editing and bring it here even if I am not the original editor?

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Yes, I believe that’s a good idea but @ian-weisser will know if it’s best to put it here or on Ubuntu.com, there are like there different ways of doing one and I am still learning the best approach here myself.

I will say if you put one here and it needs to go say to ubuntu.com it shouldn’t be a big deal to move it.

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I definitely would like to know what @ian-weisser has to say about this.

Another question: is there any particular order or priority for wiki pages that could or should be edited and moved here?

I am also a tad confused as to which pages/wiki need editing/moving since there appear to be more than one place where help pages can be found:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommunityHelpWiki

I was looking at and referring to the help.ubuntu.com pages.

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