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What is a registered user?

Generic internet surfers browsing AIRWiki can only access the public layer of this wiki, and are not able to modify its contents. In addition to that, registered users of AIRWiki can access the private layer of the wiki too and, more importantly, 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. 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!

I am a registered user. How can I access the private layer of AIRWiki?

When you register, you are assigned a username and a password. Just go to the Main Page, click on the "log in" link on top right, input those data and you're in. From now on (until you log out by clicking the link which now appears in place of "log in") you have complete access - and writing permission, so be careful - to all of AIRWiki.

If you want to change your user page (for instance, if you just found a better photo ;-) ), just go to Special:Listusers, click on your name and do it. If you want to change your password, click on the link with your name which is present on top of the screen when you are logged in to AIRWiki.

Caveats for registered users

Each registered user must 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 a layer is, see Main Page#How do I access the contents of this wiki?.) So be extremely careful while editing a page belonging to the public layer: you are personally responsible (even in penal terms, for example if you publish copyrighted material) for what you are publishing. By the way, as every editing operation on the AIRWiki is logged, it's easy to see who did what...

Remember that the AIRWiki is a tool to share information and to organize your own work within the AIRLab. You are encouraged to write down (or cut&paste) everything you need for your project (such as technical information, useful links, and so on) in the private page associated to your project's public page. Such private page is the discussion page associated to the project's page: to access and - if you want - modify it, just go to the project's page and click the "discussion" tab on top.

Discussion pages are those which belong to the "Talk" namespace of AIRWiki. Anything you write in a discussion page can be seen only by you and the other AIRWiki registered users. This means that they can possibly decide to clobber you if you ruin their work, but you cannot make a fool of yourself worldwide... nor receive letters from lawyers. 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 page instead, and you better know what you are doing :-)