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👤 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, youit haveis tworecommended optionsto

    Use the same username and email amongst instances s.t credibility transfers between instances.

    Also, our moderators will then be able to choose user names 

      Ifgive you want to be public then we recommend to create the same handle/usernameediting privileges you had on eachthe instance.other Ininstances. For this waythe people know your credibilityusername and trustemail commitsmust morebe quickly.the same The

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      Bookstack optionat 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 coursediscussion for this feature at the Codeberg Bookstack Repository. As users have stated clearly that for a shared knowledge base to staywork anonymous

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