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Welcome to wikicircles Meta

wikicircles is a family of community wikis for hobbies — real gear reviews, recipes, and hard-won know-how from the people who actually do it, free of ads and open for anyone to improve. This is Meta: the hub for the platform itself — accounts, new-wiki requests, and the handful of norms that apply across every wiki.

How accounts work

You have one wikicircles account that works on every wiki in the family — register once, here or on any wiki, and your username is the same everywhere.

Being signed in lets you read every wiki. To edit a particular wiki you join it — one click on that wiki's "Contribute" link. Joining one wiki doesn't sign you up to edit the others; you opt in to each community you actually want to contribute to.

Getting started — register, join a wiki, and make your first edit.

Get involved

Browse the wikis — see what's already here.
Request a wiki — know a hobby inside out? Propose a wiki for it.
Community guidelines — the short version of how we keep things kind and useful.

Help run the place

Meta is itself a wiki, and these pages are meant to be improved. If something here is unclear or out of date, sign in and fix it — unlike the topic wikis, Meta is open to every signed-in account.

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 == Welcome to wikicircles Meta ==
-'''wikicircles''' is a family of community wikis for hobbies — real gear
+'''wikicircles''' is a family of community wikis for hobbies — real gear reviews, recipes, and hard-won know-how from the people who actually do it, free of ads and open for anyone to improve. This is '''Meta''': the hub for the platform itself — accounts, new-wiki requests, and the handful of norms that apply across every wiki.
-reviews, recipes, and hard-won know-how from the people who actually do it,
-free of ads and open for anyone to improve. This is '''Meta''': the hub for
-the platform itself — accounts, new-wiki requests, and the handful of norms
-that apply across every wiki.
 == How accounts work ==
-You have '''one wikicircles account''' that works on every wiki in the family
+You have '''one wikicircles account''' that works on every wiki in the family — register once, here or on any wiki, and your username is the same everywhere.
-— register once, here or on any wiki, and your username is the same
-everywhere.
-Being signed in lets you '''read''' every wiki. To '''edit''' a particular
+Being signed in lets you '''read''' every wiki. To '''edit''' a particular wiki you join it — one click on that wiki's "Contribute" link. Joining one wiki doesn't sign you up to edit the others; you opt in to each community you actually want to contribute to.
-wiki you join it — one click on that wiki's "Contribute" link. Joining one
-wiki doesn't sign you up to edit the others; you opt in to each community you
-actually want to contribute to.
 * '''[[Getting started]]''' — register, join a wiki, and make your first edit.
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 == Get involved ==
-* '''[https://wikicircles.org Browse the wikis]''' — see what's already here.
+* '''[https://wikicircles.org/browse.html Browse the wikis]''' — see what's already here.
 * '''[[Request a wiki]]''' — know a hobby inside out? Propose a wiki for it.
-* '''[[Community guidelines]]''' — the short version of how we keep things
+* '''[[Community guidelines]]''' — the short version of how we keep things kind and useful.
-  kind and useful.
 == Help run the place ==
-Meta is itself a wiki, and these pages are meant to be improved. If something
+Meta is itself a wiki, and these pages are meant to be improved. If something here is unclear or out of date, sign in and fix it — unlike the topic wikis, Meta is open to every signed-in account.
-here is unclear or out of date, [[Getting started|join Meta]] and fix it.