Wiki Personal Pages

What is a personal page?

Any user with a loggin account on any openSUSE wiki get a personal page (even a personal page for any language wiki - the log is the same on any openSUSE wiki, bugzilla, etc.)

You are free to use this page to describe yourself, your goals and wishes - or nothing (you can leave it blank).

This page is very handy for giving a short notice of who you are, to make the wiki team less anonymous.

You can create as many personal pages as you want, using the sub pages feature of the wiki.

First you must know that your personal page exists in the user space "User:" of the openSUSE, that is to say that to find your page any other user (with no direct link) must type "User:Yourlogin" in the URL bar of his browser, after the www.opensuse.org domain name.

But then you can open new pages "User:Yourlogin/newsubpage". Notice the slash "/" between your personal URL and the sub page name.

You must be warned than the "personal" adjective of your "personal page" means only than this page got your login as name. Anybody can read it, see it in the "recent changes" special page, even write on it (or delete it's content). This page content is in no way private.

Personal pages policy

The selection of content that any user can write on his personal page is free.

Well almost... This aspect is very controversial. So the text below is only an abstract. If you think it is incorrect, discuss it on the discussion page or on the openSUSE mailing list, opensuse-wiki.

An openSUSE personal page's content must be, like any other wiki page, in accordance with the openSUSE Terms_of_Site.

That is this page can describe it's user, use a photograph or any graph showing it's user (many people use an indentity photograph, others an representative icon).

It can hold a link to the personal page or blog of it's user, but no advertisement of any kind.

As anywhere in the wiki, you can link to the web site of any opensource product, hopefully with a notice about this product if not obvious, even link to a comercial product if it's use is directly related to openSUSE or Linux. You can, for example, link to a comercial cd burner application (guess it, There is probably only one) if you are obliged to notice that some cd can be writen only by this one :-(, but you should not link to any alcool make, even french wine or belgium beer :-).

Writing to an other's user personal page

It's a very bad idea to write on the personal page of any user without important reason. If you want to communicate with this user, use the "talk" page of this user, instead . Any wiki page, including personal pages, have a discussion/talk page. If you do so, as soon this user log, he is warned that he has a message and he can go to his talk page to read.