Help:Handout
Hello! You have likely been sent this page by an account specialist or bureaucrat either before or after receiving an account. It is highly advised you read the cards below. The information relates to your privacy and how you interact with this wiki.
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.
A user account is required to edit
Editing is restricted to people with accounts for ease of site moderation.
Any person that is in the Endurance Coalition Discord for a period of one (1) month or longer is eligible for an account. If interested, contact an account specialist. The limit on time may be waived at the discretion of Endurance Coalition leadership.
Any person that is in the Endurance Coalition Discord for a period of one (1) month or longer is eligible for an account. If interested, contact an account specialist. The limit on time may be waived at the discretion of Endurance Coalition leadership.
Account recovery requires a bureaucrat or account specialist
If any editor loses access to their account, an account specialist or bureaucrat will need to help with recovery. Email account recovery is not possible.
Certain permissions are not available to all editors
While few in number, there are a couple of permissions that are not given to all editors. The list of such permissions is available at Help:Permissions. If you attempt to perform a function on this wiki and get some kind of rejection, it is likely the case one of the permissions listed there is needed to continue. A bureaucrat may be contacted for any permission, though they may grant or revoke at their sole discretion.
All edits are released under a free license
When you make edits, they are automatically released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. This means your edits can be used by anyone, including commercially, so long as attribution in the form of a link/URL to the relevant wiki page is provided by the person doing so. You will not, given this release, have the right to ask that any content you make be removed from this wiki.
Your IP address is logged
The software which runs this wiki logs your IP address to it's database every time you login to your account or make an edit. This wiki uses the CheckUser tool to view this data natively. This wiki holds IP data for 6 months. This tool is used exclusively to investigate potential account compromises and is only accessible to bureaucrats.
It is worth noting that IP addresses are not exactly private, and are exposed anytime an individual joins any Endurance Coalition controlled environment (e.g Arma server, Mordhau server).
It is worth noting that IP addresses are not exactly private, and are exposed anytime an individual joins any Endurance Coalition controlled environment (e.g Arma server, Mordhau server).
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 simply editing out information and saving changes will not actually get rid of it. Anyone can view the page history and see the content anyway. Thus, the accidental publication of personal or inappropriate information cannot be addressed by an editor in isolation.
To properly address this, the information is still to be edited out, 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. 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.
A consequence of this system is that the relevant administrator will be viewing the information as they delete it. Deleted information is also not removed from the database; only from the public archives. Administrators can review deleted pages/logs/files. This is sometimes necessary for site administration. Editors should keep this in mind as they edit.
To properly address this, the information is still to be edited out, 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. 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.
A consequence of this system is that the relevant administrator will be viewing the information as they delete it. Deleted information is also not removed from the database; only from the public archives. Administrators can review deleted pages/logs/files. This is sometimes necessary for site administration. Editors should keep this in mind as they edit.