Help:User profile

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• Your e-mail: You may optionally register your e-mail address (it will not be shown publicly on the site). This will enable you to reset your password by clicking the "Mail me a new password" box on the log in screen, if you forget it. Additionally, it will enable other registered users to send e-mail to you from the "E-mail this user" link on your user page unless you've checked the disable box (see below).
• Disable e-mail from other users: If you check this, users will not be able to send you e-mail by way of the "E-mail this user" feature.

[edit] Your nickname

Although your username is not necessarily your real name and could therefore be called a nickname, the term "nickname" is used here for a name you may optionally specify, different from your username, for when you enter your signature with ~~~ or ~~~~.

(If you use the edit toolbar for signing, remember that it gives two dashes before the four tildes.)

[edit] Raw signatures

However, there is even more versatility. You can use any text as your nickname. If "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" is unchecked, then

• The software enters "[[User:Name|" in front of, and "]]" after your nickname text.
• Any characters in your nickname that would otherwise constitute Wiki markup and HTML markup are escaped as HTML character entities.

If "Raw signatures" is checked, then

• Nothing is added to the text that you specify. What you specify is what is used between the two dashes and the timestamp.
• Wiki markup and HTML markup are not escaped, allowing you to include links, font tags, images, and templates in your signature.

[edit] Invalid raw signatures

You may find the following message displayed in your user preferences:

Invalid raw signature; check HTML tags.

This means you are using invalid HTML markup on your signature.

[edit] Using images and templates in signatures

Note that changes in the images and templates are retroactive, which on one hand may be confusing, but on the other hand, to rectify annoying signatures, may be convenient. To avoid retroactivity, use a new image or template name. Do not create a signature template in the article or template namespace: instead use a subpage of your own userpage such as sig, and link it with "{{User:Name/sig}}".

[edit] Signature rules

• Do NOT use a nickname other than your username. It's confusing (the page history shows your username, not your nickname).
• Do NOT show your username as an image, or with letters replaced by special characters, even if the name is still readable, searching a talk page for your username will fail
• Do NOT make your signature too large as it may clutter talk pages.

[edit] Password

To change your password, enter your old password, the new password, and the new password a second time. (If you're merely changing the other preferences, you do not need to enter your password.)

• Remember password across sessions. Enabling this feature will place an HTTP cookie in your browser's cache, which will allow Stargate Worlds Wiki to recognize you each time you visit a page. You will not have to log in each time you visit.

If you want to use remember my password you have to change your password if it was generated and emailed to you. This is a security feature but very often causes trouble for new users.

[edit] Interface language

One can specify an interface language. If that is different from the default language, it causes the default messages of the specified other language to appear, not those in the "MediaWiki" namespace.

Note that some contain internal links, with the name of a page in the interface language project but without the corresponding prefix; therefore these links in general do not work, unless redirects are made.