Even as a relatively technologically-savvy Wikipedian, I struggled a bit to get this extension set up with my user credentials. I was unable to login using the VSCode extension with my normal en.wikipedia.org username/password.
After some Googling, I was directed to creating a BotPassword, which I then successfully used to access en.wikipedia.org via this extension. I do not know if BotPassword is required to access all MediaWiki instances, or even if it is truly required even for Wikipedia, but it was the only way I could set this extension up to my own account, and it certainly seems to be the recommended best practice.
What that in mind, I would recommend the following changes:
- an "Account Login" section in
README.md walking through the basics of BotPassword creation.
- placing the
userName and password fields together in the WikiText extension settings using order values. While this disrupts the current alphabetical listing, I think it would be clearer and more standard.
- specifying in
description that the fields in (2) may need to be BotPassword username and BotPassword password, and clarifying that this is different from the standard MediaWiki username and password, referencing the README section in (1).
- additional minor clarity edits on the English
description text for these fields.
I would be happy to attempt to implement these changes for this project if that would be helpful.
Even as a relatively technologically-savvy Wikipedian, I struggled a bit to get this extension set up with my user credentials. I was unable to login using the VSCode extension with my normal en.wikipedia.org username/password.
After some Googling, I was directed to creating a BotPassword, which I then successfully used to access en.wikipedia.org via this extension. I do not know if BotPassword is required to access all MediaWiki instances, or even if it is truly required even for Wikipedia, but it was the only way I could set this extension up to my own account, and it certainly seems to be the recommended best practice.
What that in mind, I would recommend the following changes:
README.mdwalking through the basics of BotPassword creation.userNameandpasswordfields together in the WikiText extension settings usingordervalues. While this disrupts the current alphabetical listing, I think it would be clearer and more standard.descriptionthat the fields in (2) may need to be BotPassword username and BotPassword password, and clarifying that this is different from the standard MediaWiki username and password, referencing the README section in (1).descriptiontext for these fields.I would be happy to attempt to implement these changes for this project if that would be helpful.