Help:User guide
from the Antique Jewelry University
The Antique Jewelry University (AJU) website is a wiki based website with the "mediawiki" software running behind the scene. This is the same software as wikipedia uses (actually it was designed for wikipedia). This means that most of the wikipedia functionalities work here as well (with some minor adaptations).
Although this website is optimized for most browsers, we recommend firefox for best performance.
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Navigation
We try to keep navigation as easy as possible and therefor you will find expanding menus on the images on the navigation images. For logic sake we categorize every page and sometimes you will follow a link to a specific category when there are more than one pages falling into a single category.
Any suggestions on making it more user friendly is highly encouraged.
Registration
For the casual reader there is really no need to register as you can read everything we write and only some pages are restricted for administration purposes.
When you do register, some options become available to you:
- You can upload images from your own collection (a "toolbox" with a link to the upload page will become available in the lower left corner).
- You can make comments on the pages through the "discussion" links on top of each page.
- You may start new articles through an extra form box that is presented to you in the upper left corner. We will review your additions and if any good, we will publish it.
Keep in mind that we research every entry and when we find that your entries are mere copies, we will delete them. We are looking for unique content, not copy & pastes from other websites or books.
Any images that you upload should be made by you or free of all rights, so we can publish them. You as the up loader are responsible for that.
User rights
Everyone who has registered will get some extra rights as outlined above in the "Registration" section.
Professional members in our industry with a proven record can apply (or are invited) to become a "Faculty" member. These people can alter most of the articles that are published on this website and correct errors. We do ask them to start a discussion on them prior to doing so, either through the "discussion" links or the forum.
Needless to say that we try and monitor everything to the best of our abilities so the best and most up to date information is given to our readers.
Forum
The AJU also has a forum for jewelry related discussions. Due to incompatibilities between the two systems used, you will need to create a separate account for it. There is also a "hidden" part on the forum which is reserved for trade members. Industry members can ask administration to have access to that section of the forum. Please do tell us a bit about yourself when you do.