Help:Handout
Hello! You have likely been sent this page by the bureaucrat which created your account and gave you your credentials. This page is required reading.
Not that anyone can or will check, but it is highly important that you know this information for privacy and transparency reasons.
Change your password
Before you do anything, change your password to something the bureaucrat doesn't know. This is simply good digital hygiene. Do this by going to Special:Preferences and finding the "Change password" button. If you don't use a password manager, it is highly recommended in general.
If you ever forget your password, you will need to ask a bureaucrat for help.
Once you are done, come back to this page and continue reading.
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.
Terms
It will be quite helpful if you learn the difference between the following terms. They are not synonymous.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wiki | A website that has a system in place to allow collaborative editing rather than a central authority dictating content, such as a blog. Think the Zelda Wiki, or Fandom itself. |
| Wikipedia | More properly known as the English Wikipedia, it is the famous online encyclopedia that everyone can edit. |
| Wikimedia | A non-profit foundation that performs the administration and systems upkeep of the various language editions of Wikipedia. |
| MediaWiki | A free and open source software that is designed to provide a wiki-style of editing to a website. This software is what runs this very website and the English Wikipedia. |
Done
That's all. If you plan to do more correct typos or grammar, please visit Help:Editing primer for information to assist in understanding more "advanced" concepts.