Becoming an editor

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Revision as of 16:32, 16 July 2010

This is not actually a wiki, in the commonly understood (and possibly the dictionary-correct) sense of the word, being a website that anyone can edit. Anyone cannot edit, and the owner of this website is very happy with that. Sagatafl is a project grounded in a strong and highly ambituous vision. It is first and foremost presented as a hypertext, that just happens to use a wiki as its editing, information-handling and display-"engine".

Some people can contribute to the project, however, by making various kinds of infrastructural changes that do not modify the meaning of the content of the articles, and participating on the Discussion pages (see the link at the bottom of this article). A very few may also be allowed to change the content, or (this is easier) add content.

To get editing privileges, the owner of this wiki, the Designer, Peter Knutsen, must know you, on some level, i.e. from face-to-face meetings, personal one-to-one email correspondance, or a large number of posts in a discussion forum (Usenet, another NNTP-driven forum, or a web-based forum) or on a mailing list. Therefore, to get editing privileges, you must email the Designer and identify yourself (i.e. using the name or names that the Designer knows you as). If the Designer is not sure who you are, you will not get editing privileges.

Also talk a little, while contacting the Designer, about what you think you can contribute to the Sagatafl wiki project (note that you are only interested in playtesting Sagatafl, as a GM or as a player, you have no need for editing privileges).

You must also write at least a little on your own User page, presenting yourself as people online know you. If you've used the same pseudonym for half a decade, or longer, that's fine. Else, use your real name. Either way, write at least a little about yourself, or a lot of you feel like it.

Security

With regards to user name and password security, the Designer has decided not to demand that all with editing privileges devise super-secure passwords that must be at least 68 characters long and contain at least five out of

1. Capital letters
2. Non-capital letters
3. Hindu-Arabic numerals
4. Non-alphanumeric characters
5. 7th century Anglo-Saxon runes
6. Hieroglyphs

Security is nice, but in the end the reason you are given editing privileges is so that you can contribute, and if your user name and passwords are reasonably easy to remember and do not require massive effort to input, then you will log in more often, possibly from a variety of computers and other electronic devices, and so in the end contribute more. Just don't be stupid. If you're using a public computer, do not use its "remember password" function. Don't pick a retardedly easy to guess password. And if you suspect you've been hacked, attacked by a computer virus, or otherwise subject to password theft, contact the Designer ASAP.

You may lose your editing privileges, being demoted to User status (i.e. with no ability to edit) if you make no edits for a period of time. How long this period of time is is highly arbitrary, and depends on how well the Designer knows you. This procedure is simply for security reasons (if you don't log in for a long time, you are much less likely to notice it if somebody else logs in using your account and messes things up), and you can always contact the Designer and request to be upgraded to editor status again. It is in no way a punishment or an embarassment to be demoted for this reason.

See also

[What you can do to help]