WikiGuidelines

These guidelines should help you to get more easily accustomed to the community standards we follow here.

New Users

Everyone can read the pages, unless they've been specially marked (sometimes used for pages in early development). Pages should have a linked comment sub-page where everyone can add their comments
You can tell if you can modify a page by the presence of an Edit link (otherwise they say Immutable Page).
To create an account, set your User Preferences (see RealNamesPlease) by clicking on the Login link, filling in the fields, and clicking Create Profile. If you don't see a Login, and instead see your name and UserPreferences, then you have an account and are already logged in.
Creating an account will allow you to receive notification by email if interesting pages change. You can click on Subscribe on individual pages, or add a regular expression to match the pages in your UserPreferences.

Once you have an account, ask someone in LsbGroup to add you to the list of editors.
You must log in to be able to edit the restricted pages.
It's a good idea to Subscribe to pages you write or edit significantly, so you find out when others change those pages.
If useful comments have been made on comment subpages, they should eventually be folded into the parent page.

The default page setup limits editing to LsbGroup members. This is done as a deterrent to random defacement, not to keep others from adding to the wiki. Thus...
A generally editable subpage allowing for comments by anyone should be tacked onto most pages. The easiest way to make this happen is to use the LsbWikiTemplate when creating the page.
If you forgot to use the template for a page which should have a comment subpage, edit it and add lines like this at the end of the page (substitute the current page name for
```
[[FooPage]]
```
):

---- [wiki:[[FooPage]]/Comments User Comments] [[Include([[FooPage]]/Comments)]]

To create the comment subpage, click on the comments link you just added and select the LsbCommentTemplate to create the subpage.
Edit the comment subpage as needed. If you forgot to use the template, make the comment subpage world-writable by starting it with this line:

Sometimes you want to keep a new page private for a bit while it evolves. You can do that by starting with this (but change it later, it's a Wiki, and should be accessible!). Remember to leave your self access rights or this change will render the page useless:

You only need the acl line if you don't want the default permissions, which are world-read, LsbGroup write.

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