SubSurfWiki:Training/Your user page

Your user page can play various roles:
 * Tell who you are, for example with user
 * Display badges to show what you can do
 * Keep notes to yourself
 * Try things in your Help:Sandbox, or sandboxes
 * An open notebook

Sometimes people develop whole articles in their user page, then roll them out when they are 'finished'. There's no need to do this, Just develop articles in-place, out in the wiki, where they belong. This way, they have a meaningful edit history and your user pages don't get clogged with chaff.

Subpages
You can user subpages in your user page. This is a useful way to organize content. To add a subpage, just add  /My new subpage/  to your user page, then follow the red link to the new page. Or simply edit the URL to the subpage you want to create.

To get a list of all your subpages, add this to your user page, using your username: 

Replace XXXXX with overflow: and auto (not allowed in SubSurfWiki, to help prevent spam.

To see most of the things you can do on a userpage, check out Mattheh's user page.