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Please don't think about this site as being [[PEZ]]s. I only give it some few megabytes of harddisk and one or two CPU cycles on my server now and then. It's your site as much as mine. You can edit any page. Ask questions, answer questions, restructure the content, correct spelling, whatever.
* I'm curious... just how large is this site nowadays? (bet it's a bit more than some few megabytes :-p) --[[Dummy]]
* Not all that much; The wiki is 137 MB actually. The active pages occupies the most space relative to their content. But that's pretty much as it should be I think. =) Then there's the RoboRumble files; 39 MB. But the cruical resource on my poor little server is RAM. I have some more to throw in now waiting, but just haven't gotten around to do it. Always those bots that ask for my attention. =) -- [[PEZ]] 
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There's a strange [[WikiBugs|bug]] in my UseModWiki regarding user names. I don't know if it is in my configuration or in UseModWiki itself. If you don't enter a username in [http:/perl/robowiki?action=editprefs Preferences] (you can use any legal [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiName WikiName] like <nowiki>[[Foo]]</nowiki>) the site chooses the last user it knows about. This is often me. Please make sure you have a username entered in until I have found a fix for this (which might not be all that soon, I have a robot to attend to). -- [[PEZ]]
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If you think a particular sub section is missing, just create it. If you think this structure can be improved, please do. Please follow [[Urban]]s example and correct any errors in spelling you notice.
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There's currently only one major rule to pay attention to:
# Pretty please be polite. (Not that I have seen much rudeness anywhere on this site yet.)

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