Newbie (2025).

True story: I built Emacs from master for years as part of a daily morning routine, and never used it.  It was like a strange meditation. (I now actually use Emacs.)

My current methodology for editing EmacsWiki:

* click 'Random'
* can I make a useful edit to this page in 5 minutes or less?  If yes, do it.  Often this is just updating links, version numbers, or minor typos.
* if not, click 'Random' OR
* edit the more complex page a section at a time. (This is new, so we'll see how it goes.)

I've made it an org-habit to make at least one edit to the wiki every day! (And I also just noticed there's no page for habits; that can't be right, can it?)


== Pages needing something as I come across them ==

=== create pages ===

# org-habit (search again just in case)
# docTex (double-check)

=== update pages ===

# [MulticsEmacs]
# [DotEmacsChallenge]
# [PlainLispForMath]
# [WikiTodo]
# [AutoDownload]


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Other: non-traditional (eg, old) undergrad in computer science, ham radio, banjo, reading but not playing RPGs, unsolved mysteries, and others without number. 

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[new:DrewAdams:2025-06-04 18:22 UTC] Thanks for your maintenance work on the wiki. Please review page EmacsWikiAdministrators, and consider asking AlexSchroeder to give you admin rights. -- DrewAdams

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When undoing Spam, please click on the history link (old versions, directly from Recent Changes) and use the ｢Rollback｣ button on the last good revision. This ensures that the spam revisions no longer show up on Recent Changes. If you revert spam with a minor edit, regular visitors looking at Recent Changes can’t tell that the spam has been reverted. It’s better to think of a “minor change” as “does not need to be seen on Recent Changes by regular visitors” and I think it’s better to hide spam from Recent Changes so the undoing of the spam cannot be a minor change. It’s just an aesthetic decision, for sure, but still. 😅 Once you do the rollback, you are presented with a link to “Ban contributors”. Feel free to use it and thereby add the appropriate IP range to BannedHosts. -- AlexSchroeder

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Thanks for the info, Alex, good to know for future edits.  Cleared up several vague mysteries of the wiki for me. :)

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