Computer History Wiki mediawiki https://gunkies.org/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.30.1 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Computer History Wiki Computer History Wiki talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk 0 1 36795 36700 2025-10-01T14:47:29Z Jnc 500 /* Getting an account */ Like real names wikitext text/x-wiki <center><h2>'''Welcome to the Computer History Wiki!'''</h2> This is the Computer History Wiki ('CHWiki', for short), a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can join in order to edit! (Due to past problems with spam, anonymous editing and automatic account creation have had to be disabled; you'll have to contact an admin to get an account - see below.) Currently, we've got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles, with {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits! <big> [[:Category:Basics|Basics]] • [[:Category:Hardware|Hardware]] • [[:Category:Computers|Systems]] • [[:Category:Peripherals|Peripherals]] • [[:Category:Software|Software]] • [[:Category:Networking|Networking]]<br> [[:Category:Standards|Standards]] • [[:Category:Organizations|Organizations]] • [[:Category:History|History]]<br>[[:Category:Documentation|Documentation]] • [[:Category:Tutorials|Tutorials]] • [[Resources|Other Resources]]</big> For an introduction to Computer History Wiki conventions, and [[Help:Basic MediaWiki Syntax|MediaWiki syntax]] (if you want to help add content), please see [[Help:Contents|Help]]. </center> {| |-valign="top" | ==Introduction by the Administrators== This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base. This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia; we also don't require the detailed sourcing that Wikipedia does. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do '''not''' have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is ''preferred'' that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, [[:Category:Tutorials|tutorials]] and so on. If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, '''please, contribute it'''. We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one. We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowledge may be; it is meant to be all-encompassing. -- [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] & [[User:Lucky|Lucky]] 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT) ==Getting an account== As mentioned, due to past problems with spam, you need an account to edit, and admins have to manually create accounts. [[User:Toresbe|Tore]], who handles requests for accounts filed via the system, is often busy, but I too am happy to create accounts - just email me (jnc at alum dot mit dot edu). Please let me know your real name (I personally do ''not'' like the anonymity which has become the fashion on the Internet; I think it's a big factor in it's current toxicity), what account name you'd like, and what email address to associate with it (preferably not GMail, as it currently won't accept email from here), and I'll try and get right to it. The system will then normally automatically send you an email with a temporary password; if you used GMail, I'll have to manually send you a temporary password, which you can later change. (Go to 'Preferences' (in the upper right hand corner), and then to 'Change password'.) If you don't see the automatic message, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we've had issues with that. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 12:49, 17 September 2025 (UTC) ==Need Ideas?== If you're not sure what to add, the [[Special:WantedPages|Wanted pages]] page (also available through a link in the top left-hand corner) is always a good place to start! If you have any expertise in any of them, please weigh in! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:44, 2 August 2017 (CEST) The other thing you could do is fill out a stub article. (These are articles that need improving, by having more information added to them. They're a perfectly good start for a great article, they just haven't grown up yet.) You can find a list of them [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Stub|here]]. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 23:10, 17 December 2018 (CET) ==Admin Services== [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] has added me to the [http://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop admin group], and I have considerable experience as an admin on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jnc Wikipedia], so if anyone needs anything which requires admin status (e.g. merging histories for duplicate articles, deleting article names with typos, etc, etc) please let me know. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 14:18, 25 July 2017 (CEST) | | | | | | | style="border-left: 1.5px solid #aaaaaa;" | | | | | | style="width:30%" | == News == {{Computer_History_Wiki:News}} |} __NOTOC__ oe7znh84raqcwoapb0omjcnm3iq347y