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Generally speaking, just use links like you normally do. You may also download files that are provided for any of the games and lessons offered.
If you would like to contribute, you will need to register, then you may log in and begin making changes and additions. It's a good idea to look at the links below if you would like to contribute, so you know how your contribution can or will be used. Some pages only a sysop may change, so if you think the site would improve by you having sysop priveliges to change those pages, just contact me.
For help in actual nuts-and-bolts of editing a wiki, there's really no better place that Wikipedia itself, and here's a link to the "How to Edit" page. It's useful to have that page open in another tab or window while you work on a page.
For immediate help in starting to write and edit pages, here are some pages I've ported to this wiki to start off with. Please take the time to check out the copyright issues and disclaimers for this site before you begin editing--your words on this site are available to all.
- Help:Editing
- Help:Formatting
- Help:Starting_a_new_page
- Help:Links
- Help:Images
- Help:Tables
- Help:Templates
Also, it does help to do your work in a word processor first, and copy and paste to an editing window in the wiki, rather than composing on the fly. This will prevent things like time-outs, accidental key deletions, and so on, from completely obliterating your work before it gets published.
At the bottom of the page, are a number of links to investigate. An interesting one is "Special pages", which has links to a variety of information available to a user.
Contact Me
To contact me with questions with this site, use admin@huntingthesnark.com. Please use a descriptive subject line, perhaps containing the words "Question about Hunting The Snark", as my mail is well filtered. Also, there's a page for me here, called WikiSysop, where you can contact me as well.
Disclaimers
Disclaimers for this site can be found here: Disclaimers.
Copyright
It's a large document, so I've put it here: GNU_Free_Documentation_License.
Privacy Policy
It's a large document, so I've put it here: Privacy Policy.
Spam
If you are receiving advertising emails that claim to be from HuntingtheSnark.com, this is from spammers abusing our email address. We do not send spam, nor do we ever sell or otherwise give email addresses to spammers. And of course we do not allow spammers to use our email servers.
What't Going On?
There are spammers that forge the addresses of legitimate web sites to create their spam messages. When they choose this site, this makes it look as if you are receiving spam messages from HuntingtheSnark.com, regarding such things as stock options, deals on medicine, or other useless information. However, we are not sending them, nor are the spammers using our web site to send the spam. Instead, they are forging the "from:" headers on their own email, so that they don't get their own mail servers involved in the results of a spam attack. That means that all the emails that the spammer sends out, if automatically rejected by mail servers who are protecting users, will use the "from:" header to return the email to us rather than the spammer. If the spam gets through to a mailbox, it will look as if it is "from" HuntingtheSnark.com, although we have nothing to do with it.
What Can Be Done About This?
Spammers rotate their abusive forging from one legitimate web site to another. From our end, at HuntingtheSnark.com, there is nothing we can do about this misuse of our email address, since the spammers are not using our mail servers to spam. So not only are you subjected to being spammed, we are getting thousands of bounced email messages as well.
We do suggest that you invest in a good spam filter for yourself, as well as a virus protector, since some spam carry computer viruses.
Donations
No monetary donations are currently being accepted for this site. The donation of your time and effort to help people of all ages learn to reason effectively, is greatly appreciated.