प्रबन्धकगणेभ्यः मार्गदर्शनम्

As per recent correspondence, Google is planning to introduce some radical changes on their Google Sites platform towards the second half of this year, which would significantly affect our work, as one of them would prevent us from creating and editing tables.

Thus, we have been searching for an alternate platform and came across a wiki farm called ‘miraheze’, which would let us create and manage our own set of wiki pages. This platform uses the MediaWiki engine, which is the same one as used by Wikipedia, so maybe some of you would be familiar with the appearance and layout.

This document tries to explain how to use the Visual Editor and some other administrative features on miraheze, which might seem a little different at first compared to what we are currently using, but once we become more familiar, using it should also become relatively easy. Please try using it and making some edits on your own, and reach out to your peers as well as administrators/other members in the group, if you require any assistance.

Creating a new account on miraheze and logging in

Since we would like to prevent unauthorized access to the editing tools by external viewers, we have restricted the same only to registered users having an e-mail account, and also allow only our administrators to create new accounts.

Thus, please reach out to an administrator with your desired username, and also provide them an e-mail address if possible. You will get an e-mail once your account is created and then you can log in using the following URL:

https://samskritavyakaranam.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin

The login page looks like this:

A couple of important things to know before logging in for the first time:

- Your miraheze username, unlike most platforms, is case-sensitive. So, please use the exact same username that you see in the e-mail that you get, including spaces and capital letters. If you miss any character or make a mistake, you will get an error message saying "invalid username".

- Errors have been reported on browsers other than Edge. So, using Edge browser is highly recommended, but it shouldn't be necessary.

In order to reduce unauthorized login attempts, we have removed all links to the login page and other special pages from the main page. Thus, please do not share the above URL with anyone except fellow volunteers and teachers, if possible.