Help:User Preferences

This page provides additional information about the options on your "My Preferences" page. You may change any values, but can always return to the default settings by clicking "Restore all default settings" (next to the "save" button).

Basic User Info Tab

The first tab has basic user info. The top part of the tab displays system information about your account. This will show you the user groups to which you belong. These groups dictate what rights you have on the system. You can read more about that topic in in this Help document. I will also show you an edit count Things you can change in this tab:

• Password Change
• Gender - some system (not content) pages have special instructions for referring referring to a user by gender. This is optional.
• Internationalisation - you can pick a language preference here. Some of the system messages are available in other languages. However, as AquaPedia content is currently only available in English, we suggest you stick with the default, for now.
• System email - A current email address will allow you to receive password reset information. This also allows you to use a personal message/email feature to contact other users directly. When you send an email, it discloses your address to the recipient. When you receive a message, your email is not disclosed to the sender. You can select whether or not you want the email feature enabled.

Appearance Tab

This tab provides some options for how information is displayed to you. It does not effect the settings of how other users see your contributions. Most users will not change these settings.

Date and Time

You can set how you would like date/time to be shown to you. You can also set your local time. All changes on AquaPedia have a time stamp. This merely formats your view of the time stamp.

Editing

This only alters editing windows that are not predefined in the page styling or software. Most users will not change these settings.

Recent Changes

Most users will not change these settings.

Search Options

Most users will not change these settings. You may increase or decrease the default number of options you see when using the basic site search tool (search box in upper right of main window)

Threaded Discussion

Most users will not change these settings. We suggest that you do not make any of these numbers smaller than they are by default.