Help/User page
A user page is a page about a user with an account on the Rich Annotator System, and who is (most probably) a contributor.
If your user account has been created, you still have neither user page nor talk page. Then you can create your own user page. Your user page is linked in the top right under your user name. More importantly, others will see links to your user page from various places which assist collaboration. You can also link to your user page within text of a page, which is mainly useful on talk pages when you sign your name.
What to put on your user page
User pages are just as flexible as any other page, and it's a page all about you, so generally people will leave you to freely write your user page in whatever format you like. It's a feature to help other people know who you are, and to bring the online community closer together. Think of it as a “profile” page. You can also state what your main areas of interest are in relation to the Rich Annotator System, and describe contributions you have made or areas where you are interested in contributing.
Other people's user pages
As mentioned above, you will see links to other people's user pages, in various places throughout the site.
User Contributions
When viewing another person's user page, an additional link "user contributions" appears in the "tools" of the sidebar. This takes you to a list of all of this user's edits. Use this to get an idea of how prolific a contributor somebody is, or to track down edits made by a user who is causing trouble/making bad edits.
Editing someone else's page
It's generally considered bad etiquette to rewrite or reword another person's user page. You should not change content on someone else’s user page without their permission. Editing is not disallowed, but you should avoid adding information (or especially opinions) which might be misinterpreted as coming from that user, in situations where this could potentially cause upset. Some types of edit are widely acceptable, and unlikely to cause upset:
- Fixing internal links, when a page has been moved or deleted
- Fixing broken external links
- Categorizing or fixing categories of user pages.
User talk pages
Every user page has an associated talk page; a "user talk page". This is a special kind of talk page, for leaving messages directed at a particular user.
