Revision of Information for New Users from Mon, 2010-01-25 15:56

Dear New User,

You have recently registered for a user name on http://macrostomorpha.info and this page explains some of the basic features of the site.

First, you need to know that this page uses a content management environment, which was set up by the EDIT (European Institute of Distributed Taxonomy) Initiative. The system has six different levels of users:

- anonymous users are people that simply visit the site coming from the internet
- authenticated users are like you: they have registered, but they have not yet communicated that they want to contribute content
- contributors can contribute content
- editors can alter content that was contributed by contributors
- maintainers can edit most aspects of the site (that is my role at the moment)
- supermaintainers are the people from EDIT that set up the servers and the content management environment

With your registration you have become a contributor and after logging in you can perform a number of activities on the site.

However, this will require you to make changes to the site and you will therefore need to understand in more detail how the site works. You can find a lot of this information on the scratchpads.eu site, and specifically here (a page with documentation files of the scratchpads training courses, including different files that are useful for training purposes).

To experiment with this documentation please initially use the so-called Sandbox (a special scratchpad for testing) where you can make all the changes you want without causing any damage. Only start uploading information to macrostomorpha.info once you have understood a bit what you are doing. 

Please contact me if you have question.

Cheers,

Lukas 

PS: users no longer get fileshares as they seem to have been discontinued during the last Drupal update.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith