Request account

We receive around 20 spam account requests a day, so most requests are rejected. Yours will be approved if you do two simple things:

Give your real name, and use an email address that matches it. Requests where the name and email clearly go together are approved; ones where they don't are treated as spam.
In the "Why would you like an account?" box below, write one line saying why – for example, a subject you'd like to write about.

Genuine requests that do both of these are approved quickly.

Please read our Terms of Service before completing this form.

The Terms of Service are short and written in plain English. They contain important information about what we expect from contributors — including rules on copyright, advertising, unsuitable content, and how new accounts work. Ticking the box at the bottom of this form means you have read and agree to abide by them.

Once your account is approved, you will be emailed a confirmation and will be able to log in.

User account

A confirmation message will be sent to your email address once you submit this request. The address will not be published. Please respond by clicking on the confirmation link provided by the email. Finally, your password will be emailed to you when your account is created.

Username:
Email address:

Personal information

Please use your real name, and make sure it matches the email address you give below — requests where the two clearly do not match are usually rejected as spam.

Your real name:

This note will appear on your user page once your account is approved; you can change it later.

In one line, tell us why you'd like an account — for example, a subject you'd like to write about. This is how we tell genuine requests from spam, so requests left blank are rejected.

Why would you like an account? (one line):

Terms of Service

I confirm that I have read the Terms of Service and agree to abide by them. The real name I have given above is my own real name.

To protect the wiki against automated account creation, we kindly ask you to solve the following task below and enter the answer in the box (more info):

What is ten minus four? (enter the number)