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Accounts & permissions

Creating an account

Register with a username, password, and email:

  • Username — 3–64 characters: letters (including accented and Hangul), numbers, and _, ., -, or spaces.
  • Password — at least 8 characters.
  • Email — required, and must be verified before you can contribute. Disposable / temporary-email domains are rejected.

You're signed in immediately after registering, but your account starts unverified.

Email verification

A verification link is emailed to you (valid for 24 hours; you can resend it from the verify-email page). Until you verify:

  • You can read pages and use Show preview while editing.
  • You can't save. Verification gates every write action — creating or editing pages and templates, uploading files, reverting revisions, renaming pages, starting or replying in discussions, watching a page, and editing your bio.

Groups & permissions

Every account starts in the user group. Curator and sysop are granted in the admin panel by existing curators or sysops.

ActionAnonymousUserCuratorSysop
Read, search, view history / talk
Edit & create pages and templates
Upload files
Discussions & reverting
Rename pages
Admin panel & managing user groups
Delete pages (API only)

Curators and the admin panel

Curators have full access to the admin panel and can grant or revoke both the curator and sysop groups. Page deletion exists only through the JSON API (sysop) — there's no delete button in the web UI.

Sessions use secure, http-only cookies — a 1-hour access token that's silently refreshed for up to 7 days, so you stay logged in without re-entering your password.

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