Help:Handout

Hello! You have likely been sent this page by a bureaucrat either before or after receiving an account. It is highly advised you read this page. Not that anyone can or will check, but it is highly important that you know this information for privacy and transparency reasons.

If you were recently given an account, before doing anything, change your password. This is done by going to Special:Preferences and clicking the "Change password" button.

User accounts

Editing is restricted to people with accounts for ease of site moderation. Any member of the Endurance Coalition Discord may request an account and in 99% of cases it will be accepted outright. This is done by reaching out to any bureaucrat. Non-Endurance Coalition Discord members may still be eligible for an account if they can provide a convincing reason as to why. Presuming a bureaucrat does not decline the request, Fleff will be consulted and he will have the final decision making authority on the matter.

An account consists entirely of a username and password. An editor is unable to request a password reset via email. Editors that forget their credentials are to contact a bureaucrat for assistance.

Administrators reserve the right to block accounts (i.e the editor can login but not edit) for any reason. Bureaucrats reserve the right to decline creating an account for any reason. Editors are required to follow the directions of wiki administrators when it comes to interacting with the wiki.

Permissions

While few in number, there are a couple of permissions that are not given to all editors:

• Administrator — Site moderators. They can delete pages and logs from public visibility, block editors from editing, and protect pages and files so only specific editors can edit them.
• Bureaucrat — Can assign and revoke permissions, edit accounts, and create new accounts.
• Interface administrator — Can edit pages which dictate the look of the website (e.g MediaWiki:Editnotice-0-War game rules, which dictates the message shown to all editors that edit that page) and import pages from other MediaWiki instances to this wiki.

For an exhaustive list of all permissions, and what each permission can explicitly do, see Special:ListGroupRights.

Anyone with an account may request one of the above from a bureaucrat of whom may approve or deny such requests at their discretion. History editing other wikis (especially Wikimedia sites), knowledge of the war game, consistent editing on this wiki, and willingness to learn all greatly improve the chances of such a request being granted.

Ownership of your edits

Be aware that, to protect this wiki against a potential scenario of a person being removed from or leaving the Endurance Coalition "under a cloud" and attempting to disrupt the wiki, that when you publish any edit to this website that you grant a permanent and irrevocable license to retain and display your edits.

This license also includes allowing the removal and transformation of your edits, that way the wiki-like nature of this website can work. You may politely request edits or uploaded files of yours be removed, and this will likely be done if it does not cause undue strain to the war game or wiki administrators, but this wiki is under no obligation to comply.

Obviously, the hope is that the above does not happen. It is not expected that this will happen to you. But, life happens, and this serves to future proof the wiki. If you have further questions about this, contact Sirdog.

Your IP address is logged

Be aware that the software which runs this wiki logs your IP address to it's database every time you login to your account. Some wikis, such as the English Wikipedia, use the CheckUser tool to natively view this data. This tool has purposefully not been installed here out of respect for your privacy. However, any person with access to the physical database of this wiki can view see this information. Something to keep in mind.

If your digital threat model does not like this, it is encouraged you utilize a VPN service. Free ones are discouraged for various reasons. This website takes no measures to block VPNs.

Removing information is not simple

Every edit, the content of the edit, who made the edit, and when the edit was made is publicly logged. Every version of a page after every edit is similarly logged. This means that it's difficult to truly delete information. Simply editing the information out and clicking "Save changes" is insufficient. Anyone with an internet connection can check the page's history and still find the information.

So, if your little brother decides to publish an edit with your address because they are high on sugar, or you accidentally copy and pasted your password into a 30-minute edit and clicked save, unless you are an administrator, you cannot fix the issue yourself.

To properly address this, you still edit out the information, but then a wiki administrator must be notified so they can delete the edit from the public archives. This notification should be done privately, such as via Discord DM, to avoid the Streisand effect. If curious as to how administrators do this, check out Help:RevisionDelete.

Certain automated filters are in place that will detect when information that is likely inappropriate to add has been introduced. The filter will either warn the editor to exercise caution or disallow the edit entirely. Listen to them.

Done

That's all. If you plan to do more than correct typos or grammar, please visit Help:Editing primer for information to assist in understanding more "advanced" concepts.