Difference between revisions of "Registered users"

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What is a registered user?

Registered users of AIRWiki can access the private layer of the wiki (in addition to the public layer). More importantly, they can modify AIRWiki pages of both the public and the private layer. To learn what a layer is in the context of AIRWiki, see Main Page#How do I access the contents of this wiki?.

The possibility to become a registered user is restricted to the people who work in the AIRLab, i.e. teachers, researchers and students. To discover how you can become a registered user, see the Bureaucracy section.

To become a registered user, you must request a user account for the AIRWiki. To do that, you can ask your Advisor or send an email containing your name, the name of your Advisor and the name of your project to either migliore (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it or eynard (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it.

Caveats for users

If you are a student beginning her/his work within the AIRLab, please note that you must be a registered user before you can even enter the Lab!

Each user must also be well aware that anything she/he puts into the public layer of AIRWiki will be published on the internet and visible by all the world. To know what is a layer, see Main Page#How do I access the contents of this wiki?. So remember to be extremely careful while editing a page, unless you clicked the "discussion" tab on top and are therefore working in the private layer of the AIRWiki. Remember that you are personally responsible (even in penal terms, for example if you publish copyrighted material) for what you publish in the public layer. By the way, as every editing operation on the AIRWiki is logged, it's easy to see who did what.

As a rule of thumb, while editing a Discussion page (i.e. a private one) on top of the screen must be written "Editing Talk:NameOfThePage". If the prefix "Talk:" is missing, you are editing the public layer instead, and you better know what you are doing :-)

On the other hand, anything you write in a "Talk:" page, i.e. anything you write after clicking the "discussion" tab on the screen, can be seen only by you and the other AIRWiki registered users. This means that they can still decide to clobber you if you ruin their work, but you cannot make a fool of yourself worldwide, nor receive letters from lawyers.

They can access both public and private pages, and modify the private pages (students) or both public and private pages (teachers and researchers).