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= How To Contribute =

== Account Setup ==

 1. Create your account via the <<Action(newaccount,new account page)>>.<<BR>>Please use your '''First''' and '''Last''' name combined without spaces as your user name, i.e. '''John''' and '''Doe''' becomes '''!JohnDoe'''. <<BR>>Users are encouraged to provide a valid email address.  We do take steps to limit Spammers from harvesting email addresses.

 2. Contact us at <<MailTo(wikigroup AT webworks DOT com)>> with your wiki login name, i.e. '''!JohnDoe''', and we will add you to the contributor list on the AuthorGroup page.

== Learning the Wiki Way ==

 1. Please read [[Wiki/UsingTheWiki|Using The Wiki]] and [[Wiki/Guidelines|Wiki Guidelines]].
 2. Try out some edits in the WikiSandBox.
 3. Take a glance at Quadralay's outline for [[Wiki/Training|Wiki training]].  You can use it as a check list to ensure you haven't missed anything important.

== Quick Start ==

 * Edit any page by pressing '''<<GetText(Edit)>>''' at the top or the bottom of the page
 * Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with {{{["quoted words in brackets"]}}}
 * Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page
 * See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.