Fedora Project Wiki:User pages

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User pages for contributors must be in the format [[User:''Fasname'', where Fasname is the Fedora Account System username for the user.

Quickly getting to your user page
An easy way to get to this page is by clicking your name in the top-right hand corner of the wiki.

Old Moin-style user pages (i.e., [[IanWeller]]) need to be moved to the User:-namespace style.

What to put on your user page

User pages are just as flexible as any other wiki page, and it's a page all about you, so generally people will leave you to freely write your user page in whatever format you like. It's a feature to help other people know who you are, and to bring the Fedora Project community closer together. Think of it as a “profile” page. You might like to mention where you are from and something about your activities, contributions, or interests are in the Fedora Project.

Some teams may request that you specify specific information such as contact information or ask you to add your User page to a particular category. While these pages do not appear in a default search query, they may be found through advanced searches or browsing specific categories. If you have contact information on these pages, please keep that contact information current and please acknowledge (politely) queries about Fedora Project that may come your way.

User scratchpad / development area

You can use your user page as a scratchpad. An area for developing ideas without cluttering the main namespace (see Help:Wiki_structure#Namespaces). If subpages are enabled (see Help:Subpages), you may find them useful for creating sub pages under your user page. However you should avoid expending too much effort within your own area of the wiki. Be bold! Edit the main wiki articles! If you wiki has a shared Sandbox page, you can also use it for quick (non-permanent) wiki experimentation. See also Help:Wiki_structure#User:_namespace

Other people's user pages

As mentioned above, you will see links to other people's user pages, in various places throughout the wiki.

User Contributions

When viewing another person's user page, an additional link “user contributions" appears in the “tools” of the sidebar. This takes you to a list of all of this user's wiki edits. Use this to get an idea of how prolific a contributor somebody is, or to track down edits made by a user who is causing trouble/making bad wiki edits.

Editing someone else's page

It's generally considered bad etiquette to rewrite or reword another person's user page. Editing is not disallowed, but you should avoid adding information (or especially opinions) which might be misinterpreted as coming from that user, in situations where this could potentially cause upset. Some types of edit are widely acceptable, and unlikely to cause upset:

• Fixing internal links, when a page has been moved
• Fixing broken external links
• Categorizing or fixing categories of user pages.

User talk pages

Every user page has an associated talk page; a "user talk page". This is a special kind of talk page, for leaving messages directed at a particular user. See Help:Talk.