ATwiki:User page
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ATwiki provides user pages to facilitate communication among participants in its project to build an AT information database. Generally, you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to ATwiki. ATwiki is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website. Your user page is about you as a contributor to ATwiki, and pages in your user space should be used as part of your efforts to the project. In addition, there is broad agreement that you may not include in your user space material that is likely to bring the project into disrepute.
What may I have on my user page?
Your userpage is for anything that is compatible with the ATwiki project. It is a mistake to think of it as a homepage: ATwiki is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site. Instead, think of it as a way of organizing the work that you are doing on the articles in Wikipedia, and also a way of helping other editors to understand those with whom they are working.
Some people add information about themselves as well, possibly including contact information (email, instant messaging, etc), a photograph, their real name, their location, information about their areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, homepages, and so forth. (If you are concerned with privacy, you may not want to and are by no means required to emulate this. You should be aware that your user page may be duplicated by some of the websites that mirror ATwiki.)
You can use your user page to help you to use ATwiki more effectively: to list "to do" information, works in progress, reminders, useful links, and so forth. It is also good for experimenting with markup (that is, as a personal sandbox).
Another common use is to let people know about your activities on ATwiki, and your opinions about ATwiki. So you might include current plans, a journal of recent activities on ATwiki, and your (constructive) opinions on how certain ATwiki articles or policies should be changed. If you will not be editing ATwiki for a while, drop a note on your user page to that effect.
You might want to add quotations that you like, or a picture, or some of your favorite ATwiki articles or images (freely licensed only—see the What may I not have on my user page? section below), or the like.
Others may also edit your user page. In the event that your editing privileges on ATwiki are revoked, a notice of this may be placed on your user page.
If you want to dual-license your contributions under an additional license or declare them all public domain, you may put a notice to this effect on your user page. Because of the large templates and long category names, some editors move the license templates to a subpage (see the What about user subpages? section below). Whether you include an explicit license statement or not, however, all of your edits on ATwiki are also licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Many users include mentions of the languages they know (see Wikipedia:Babel).
You are welcome to include a link to your personal home page, although you should not surround it with any promotional language.
Note: User pages are often reached through user signatures on talk pages.
