👤 Account Creation
Username & Email
As with any collaborative software you first need to make an account before you can contribute. As you might have noticed, Deternet has split its different sectors in different Bookstack instances for simplicity. In this way users can completely focus on one thing without being distracted with information they don't necessarily need in that moment.
Now, this does also mean if you want to contribute to multiple instances that you need to create multiple accounts for each instance. Therefore, it is recommended to
- Use the same username and email amongst instances s.t credibility transfers between instances.
Also, our moderators will then be able to give you the same editing privileges you had on the other instances. For this the username and email must be the same
Security
Bookstack at this moment has no revision or approval workflow i.e where changes are first reviewed by moderators before they are published. Now, maybe this function will appear in some future releases since there is a great deal of discussion for this feature at the Codeberg Bookstack Repository. As users have stated clearly that for a shared knowledge base to work
Viewer
Editor
Admin