I don't know how to get unbanned. I created an account with a wrong username (with typo) a few nights ago, tried again, and failed, gave up. Tried to create an account with a different name/email and got this. Unsure how long this will take to cool off. It said something about "send a mail to explain why you're creating accounts" before It just shows everything as this.

The only bloody reason I wanted to create an account was to see if I could set some kind of dark mode, looking at that wiki makes me feel like I'm starting into a lightbulb, but I'm running debian, and wanted to get info on the init system in use in debian.

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[–] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Debian, like Wikipedia, uses MediaWiki. On MediaWikis, Dark Reader will let you view a wiki without needing to create an account and set the thing to dark mode.

EDIT:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/FAQ

Q: Access to wiki.debian.org is blocked with 403 Forbidden

Please mail wiki@debian.org with your IP address.

Might try that.

EDIT2: Sorry, take it back about using MediaWiki. Debian uses MoinMoin. But it still does work with Dark Reader.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    thank you for everything, you're fixing both my problems.

    Also, ironically, the fucking FAQ with the 403 forbidden solution is behind the goddamn 403, but thanks to you, at least I have the email address.

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