[WikiEducator] Delay on New WikiEducator Accounts?

2019-02-23 Thread Steve Foerster
Does anyone know whether there is a human approval component to new accounts being established on WikiEducator, and if so who those humans are? A colleague has tried to create an account, has confirmed his email address, but has not received his password and it’s been a couple of days. Thanks,

[WikiEducator] Re: Mastodon social network instance set up for OERu

2019-02-23 Thread Steve Foerster
For anyone who's taken advantage of this, please feel free to follow me at https://mastodon.oeru.org/@stevefoerster as I am using it actively. -=Steve=- On Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 1:09:28 AM UTC-4, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Hi everyone > > The OER Foundation has set up a Mastodon instance >

Re: [WikiEducator] Delay on New WikiEducator Accounts?

2019-02-23 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Steve, Sadly we needed to introduce a human approval loop for new accounts a few years ago to manage spam more effectively. There are only two of us overseeing new accounts and sometimes we fall a little behind. The outstanding account requests over the last week have been approved and I apolog