How to use this site

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This site is a wiki. That means that anyone can edit it. It's the quickest and easiest way of getting the information that is in lots of different people's heads onto a website for everyone to share.

Most of the content is navigable from the home page. Another way of finding stuff is to use the search box on the left hand side of the screen.

If you spot something that is wrong, fix it! or needs expanding upon, do it! You need to be logged in to edit stuff - as a basic way of preventing spam and vandalism - but that's it as far as barriers to entry go.

You can upload files to the website, whether images or PDFs etc. You need to use the Upload page to do this, but be warned that you are limited to files that are less than 2mb in size. If you have anything bigger, it might be an idea to host it elsewhere.

When you sign up you get a page just for you. It's linked to at the top of the page with the username you chose. Fill it in with some details about yourself so we all know who you are (and whether we trust you!).