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{{DISPLAYTITLE:स्वयम्सेवकगणेभ्यः मार्गदर्शनम्}}
<big>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.</big>
 
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<big>When you try to edit a page for the very first time, you will see this message:</big>
[[File:Confirmemail.png|border|center|1126x1126px]]
<big>You can either click on the "'''user preferences'''" link shown above or go to [https://samskritavyakaranam.miraheze.org/[Special:Preferences |https://samskritavyakaranam.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Preferences]] to confirm your e-mail address.</big>
 
<big>When you get to the '''User Preferences''' page and scroll down, if you did not provide an e-mail address initially for account creation, you'll see this:</big>
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<big>If you did provide an e-mail address, you'll see something similar to this:</big>
[[File:EmailProvided.png|center|1126x1126px]]
<big>In this case, you can click the "'''Confirm your email address'''" button and then click the blue button that says "'''Mail a confirmation code'''" on the next page. You will be sent a link on the e-mail address you provideprovided, and clicking it will confirm your e-mail address.</big>
 
<big>Once you have confirmed your e-mail address, you can start editing on miraheze.</big>