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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.