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Log in and Creating Accounts

Most pages on Wikimedia Commons can be edited without registering an account. People who edit without accounts are said to be editing "anonymously", although their edits are listed against their IP address, which is usually less anonymous than a username!

However, users must be logged in to an account in order to upload files. The good news is, once you've registered an account on Wikimedia Commons, you can use that account on all Wikimedia projects. Once you've logged in at one site, you'll be automatically logged in to all the others, too.

Registering

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In the top right-hand corner you'll find a link that says "Log in / create account". This link takes you to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin .

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Follow the link to create an account.

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The top part of the screen shows some two fuzzy words mashed together. New users are required to enter the words in the box below. This is known as a "CAPTCHA" and it helps block spammers from automatically signing up hundreds of accounts.

Below the CAPTCHA are some fields for your username, password and email address. Note that

  • usernames are case sensitive - "Doug" is different to "DOUG" which is different to "DoUG" which is different to "DOuG" ...
  • your username must be unique, so if you can't sign up because someone else already has an account with that name, try making it longer or appending some numbers to the end.

Putting your email address is optional, but it's a good idea. Firstly, it means if you forget your password, you can request a new one to be sent to your email. Secondly, it means you request notification via email if someone leaves you a message on-wiki. This is very useful if you don't intend to return and check the site regularly. Thirdly, it means you can send emails via the wiki to other users, and you can allow other users to email you, too.

Logging in

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Simply follow the same link to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin , enter your username and password and click "Log in".

When you are logged in, you will notice a new set of links in the top right-hand corner, starting with your username, followed by

User links

As a registered user, you will have several extra options available to you now. The first is your very own user page. This will be located at [[User:Your username here]]. You can get to it by clicking on your username in the top right-hand corner.

This is a good place to put some profile information about yourself, such as your interests and essay writing skills. Putting your proficiency in various languages is also useful to let other users know how they can best communicate with you. For special templates for this purpose, see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Babel .

Your talk page, located at [[User talk:Your username here]], is where other users can leave messages for you. When your user talk page has been edited, a large orange bar will appear at the top of all the wiki pages you visit that says, "You have new messages", until you go read your talk page.

You can respond to messages on your talk either in place on your talk page, or on the other essay writers' talk page. (There will probably be a link in their signature to their talk page.) Be sure to sign all messages you write on talk pages by appending your messages with four tildes: ~~~~. When you save the page, these will automatically be converted into a link to your user page and a timestamp.

Your watchlist is where you can see the latest changes made to pages that are on your watchlist. By default files you upload will have their Image pages added to your watchlist. This means you can follow the changes that other people make to your file's descriptions. You can also add pages to your watchlist by opening the "edit" tab and ticking the box that says "Watch this page".

Under your contributions, you'll find a list of all the edits or uploads you've done, starting with the most recent. This can be useful if you remember editing an interesting page but forgot to add it to your watchlist.

Setting your preferences

There are dozens of preferences available, but just a few of the most important will be covered below.

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Follow the right-hand corner link to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences .

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Under "User profile", there is a drop-down list for "Language". This will change the language that interface messages (e.g. menu links) are presented in. If you are more comfortable with a language other than English (which is the default) then it's definitely worth changing this to your preferred language.

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At the bottom under the "Email" section there are a number of preferences. If you don't intend to check the site regularly, it's a good idea to tick the option for "E-mail me when my user talk page is changed.

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Don't forget to save your preferences!

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