When logging in, sometimes you get the message
"User name must be WikiName formatted!".

Your "wiki name" is much like your regular name.
Both have a first name and a last name, with the first letter of each name capitalized.
The only difference is that your "wiki name" has both names squished together, without any spaces.

I think that's all you need to know to get started.

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More details about the idea of "wiki name" that might be helpful if you want to create pages.

Every page on this wiki has a name.

A few pages here (such as the page DavidCary) are named after a person.
Those are "name pages".

Other pages are named after some topic or category of things.
(see
Wiki:WikiName∞ , Wiki:WikiWord∞, Wiki:LinkPattern∞,
Wiki:WikiNameAdvantages∞
Wikka:WikiName∞
).

If you want to create a page about an entire category of things,
for example "electronic projects",
please name the page in the singular form (without the s on the end): ElectronicProject.
That way we can refer to it later in both the singular and the plural form:
"An ElectronicProject", also "these ElectronicProjects".

Try to keep page names short.

"Always, always, always use good, unabbreviated, correctly-spelled meaningful names."
-- Wiki:MeaningfulName∞

How do I block the wiki software from turning words like MacGuffin into links when I don't want it to? is there a better way than MacGuffin ?

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