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{{GUIDEPAGE}}
This is a guide for editors and contributors who have accounts with Clicklaw Wikibooks, and who are actively responsible accounts. It contains instructions for editing content.
Read on to learn about:
* Getting your account set up
==Getting started==
===Accounts and contributor bio pages===
====Account and password setup====Unless your organization chooses to use uses a single organization-wide account for making edits, each contributor will receive a username and bio page. Users set their own password once their receive when they open their invitation to log in to Clicklaw Wikibooksset up an account. By default Clicklaw Wikibooks uses usernames are the editor's first and last name, capitalized accordingly and separated by a space, e.g. "Nate Russell". Usernames for organizations' accounts may be the full name of the organization, e.g. "Peoples' Law Schoool", to form an acronym, e.g. "LSLAP" (for Law Students Legal Advice Program), or program name, e.g. "Dial-A-Law" for the usernameCanadian Bar Association BC Branch's Dial-A-Law program. Honorifics, e.g. "Judge" or "QC", are not included in the username, although honorifics can be mentioned elsewhere. If you are an editor but have not yet received an email invitation with your account, contact [http://mailto:wikisupport@clicklaw.bc.ca wikisupport@clicklaw.bc.ca]. Editors set their own passwords and can change their email address using the "Preferences" tab.
====Contributor bio pages====
Editors and contributors with usernames receive a bio page. See [[:Category:Contributor Bio |bio page examples]]. The bio page will link to your content and include your name and a brief professional biography at a minimum. It may also include a link your firm's website, a profile picture, and contact information (phone, email, social media). Bio pages are intended to credit and introduce contributors, but Courthouse Libraries BC must avoid the impression that it promotes the services of not be seen to be promoting certain lawyers over others. Avoid overtly promotional language such as selfSelf-laudatory claims and adjectivesshould be avoided.
To set up the bio page, we require:
* 100-250 word bio