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Do I Need to Create an Account and Log In?
No, everything on this site is freely available to everyone. However, there are advantages to creating an account. This is because we have four kinds of users.

Visitors: No account required. This group can look but not touch. They can see all content but they can't edit anything.

Contributor: Members of this group have an account they have created themselves. They can see everything and in addition they can create and edit Discussion pages. This means they can add notes to the site although they can't change the main pages.

Expert: This group have had accounts set up for them and have full access to all content, including adding text and images and editing all pages (well almost every page - a few pages are protected and can only be edited by Bureaucrats). They are the people who make Antwiki possible.

Bureaucrat: These are the administrators of Antwiki. They are responsible for ensuring Antwiki runs smoothly and that content is of the highest standard. While some might be tempted to view them as at the "top" of the Antwiki user hierarchy, they spend most of their time looking at computer screens and very little down a microscope. It's clear which group it at the top of the Antwiki pyramid.

Why four levels of access? The first level makes it easy for visitors to read the site quickly and safely. The second level allows them to contribute while making sure they don't change things that have been provided and checked by experts. The third level allows experts to contribute within areas where they have specialist knowledge and make sure the information presented is of the highest quality. And the fourth group makes sure everything runs smoothly.

And finally, as is the case with all wikis, any contributions you make will be edited, changed and/or deleted, sometimes mercilessly. If you don't want this then better not to contribute in the first place.