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Short version of how to "create account" (register) and then contribute:

1. Click "Create Account - so you can contribute" and fill in your "RealName", password, email, abbreviated party and state, click "create your account".

2. Find the email sent to you by SaveTheWorld. Click the link in it. A screen will say "Congratulations...!"

3. Start editing.

RESOURCES: Rules are designed to limit hostility. Talk Tips are suggestions how to make your contributions persuasive. The Forum#How to use the software shows a few cool things you can do with a little bit of code. Template has words and codes you can copy and paste. The Forum#Ways you can contribute shows ways you can contribute: from the simplest - entering a comment on the "discussion" page, to adding corrections, more evidence, argument, etc to main pages, to starting new articles.

Detailed version of how to register ("create account") and then contribute:

Here you will learn how to create your account, and how to make the simplest type of contribution - on the "discussion" page of any article. (See "Resources" above for links to more advanced ways to contribute.)

Creating your account

1. In the upper right of screen at www.talk.saltshaker.us/savetheworld, click "Create account - so you can contribute".

2. At "RealName(WithoutSpaces)" type your real first and last name without spaces. Example: JoeShucks. Optional: You can add a middle name or nickname. Example: JoeCornShucks. Capitalization is optional.

3. Enter a password and your email address.

4.At "Your Political Party & State" enter the abbreviations of the political party on your voter registration card, and of your state. Example: "I-IA" for "Independent from Iowa". Optional: add a word or phrase summarizing your worldview. This will be public when you sign your contributions with 4 tildes (~~~~) - the squiggle in the upper left of your keyboard.

5. Click "Create your account"

6. The screen now says "Welcome, JoeShucks! A confirmation code was sent to your email address. This code is not required to log in, but you will need to provide it before enabling any email-based features in the wiki. Your account has been created. You can change your SaveTheWorld preferences if you wish...."

7. Find the email you have just received from the software. Click the first link in it. That opens up a screen in your browser (the program with which you surf the internet) that will congratulated you. Print out that screen, mount it in an expensive frame, and hang it next to the picture of your mother. Now you are able to edit.