Angelina Jordan Wiki:Getting an account
If you want to request an account here (so you can edit pages), please send an e-mail to <1@2.3>, with the numbers replaced by dcljr, angelina-jordan and net, respectively, and explain briefly who you are and how you plan to contribute to the wiki. Because there are so few editors here and only one administrator, I'm going to have to be pretty careful about whom I give accounts to. (Try not to take that personally.) It will definitely help if I already "know you" from somewhere else online (e.g., YouTube, where I am Donald Lancon Jr). Once a somewhat active editing community develops here (assuming it ever does), I can relax my iron grip on the account creation process. But for now…
Your e-mail address
Note that you don't necessarily have to send this initial e-mail from the address you want associated with your wiki user account, but you do have to eventually provide me a working e-mail address so the account can be created. And that e-mail address should continue to work as long as you have your user account here, so you shouldn't use a temporary address (unless you plan on having your account only temporarily, for some reason).
The point is, there is simply no way of getting an account here without giving me your e-mail address. However, your address need not be revealed to any other wiki users, unless you post it yourself (say, on your user page, which is the only place you would reasonably want to do that — but you probably don't want to do that).
After you have an account, you can enable the option "Allow other users to email me" in your preferences if you want to give logged-in users that ability (through an "Email this user" link that the software adds to the "sidebar" on your user page). If you reply directly to their message, that will not go through the wiki, so at that point you will be revealing your e-mail address to them. (Of course, you could use the "Email this user" link on their user page to reply to them, assuming they have also enabled that feature, but carrying on a conversation in that way is difficult.)
Choosing a username
Your username is used for your "user page" on the wiki (example: User:dcljr), so it has to work well in URLs and [[wikilinks]] (like the link earlier in this sentence), and ideally also in {{template|calls|with=parameters}}. As a result, it cannot contain any of the following characters (this is actually more restrictive than is strictly necessary, but it's what we're going with):
! " # % & ' ( ) + / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] + = ` { | }
Certain other punctuation, like periods (.), hyphens (-), and tildes (~) are fine in usernames, but most other punctuation will be "escaped" in URLs using "hex encoding" (a.k.a., "percent-encoding"↗), so the characters $ * , ^ and any non-Latin characters (technically, non-ASCII↗) should probably also be avoided.
While the username can contain spaces and underscores (_), these are interchangeable on the wiki and multiple consecutive instances of both will be collapsed into single characters. So, for example, "Donald Lancon", "Donald_Lancon", "Donald Lancon" (two spaces), "Donald__Lancon" (two underscores), and "Donald _ Lancon" (space-underscore-space) would all be the same username (technically, the last three wouldn't even be created like that in the first place).
If the first character of your username is a letter, it is case-insensitive (so "Dcljr" and "dcljr" are equivalent, but "DCLJR" is different); it will be automatically capitalized on your user page unless you do something special to force it to show up as lowercase (as is done on User:dcljr). So, both when logging in and when linking to a username, the first character can be either upper- or lowercase.
Finally, your username cannot look substantially like another person's username or like an IP address (e.g., "173.194.208.103" or "2607:f8b0:4023:1004::93" — although the latter would already be prohibited by the no-colons policy). This final restriction really only makes sense if non-logged-in users can edit the wiki, which they cannot. But we're keeping it as a restriction, anyway.
