Help:User pages
The Xenharmonic Wiki currently requires a user to be logged in to edit content. Each wiki edit is linked to a user page in the editing history of pages, also the recent changes link to user pages as well as several user lists. That's why it is a good idea to use the user page for telling a few words about the editor. This may be strengths, weaknesses and projects.
Because the page is easy to find when logged in, it is often a good starting point for the editors themselves to continue their work, containing todo-lists, project descriptions, and information more or less related to the wiki work.
Communication
The user talk page associated to a user page can be used to get directly into contact with the editor. If someone changes this page, a notification is displayed to the editor on all pages until they visit their talk page. So if you feel someone doing especially good or harmful to pages, you should consider writing them a message on the user talk page.
Categories
There are several user categories rooted in the Category:Users that may help to improve communication by trying overcome barriers in time, space, and language.
For user categories that already exist, see:
Further ones can easily be added on request.
Note that Category:Wiki editors is reserved for pages in the main namespace, since it is a subcategory of Category:People. "People pages" in the main namespace should follow a more encyclopedic style, whereas a user page can have a more personal style.
See also Special:ListUsers and Special:ActiveUsers for an exhaustive list of wiki editors and a list of wiki editors who were active in the past 30 days, respectively.
Subpages
A wiki user can create subpages within its user space by choosing a title with the following format: User:Username/Subpage; e.g. User:Xenwolf/Lua.
To generate a list of all subpages of a page, add this line to your page: {{Special:Prefixindex|prefix={{FULLPAGENAME}}/|hideredirects=1|stripprefix=1}}.
History
When the wiki was hosted by Wikispaces, user pages were not available; as a solution we created pages following the naming convention Editor [name]. Since this alternative doesn't integrate well with the current wiki service, it has been deprecated.