How to confirm your e-mail
dermoscopedia requires that users confirm their email addresses before they can edit pages and use email features. This helps to prevent problems with bad addresses, unrecoverable user accounts and unreachable users.
Confirmation
Status
You can check your address confirmation status in your preferences. If you change your email address, you will automatically be sent a new confirmation email.
How to confirm
Step 1
From your preferences, go to the section entitled User profile, and scroll down to Email options. See figures 1 and 2.
- Figure 1 - How to access special page "Preferences"
- Figure 2 - How to find section "Email options" on special page "Preferences"
Step 2
Click the button in that section; an email will be sent to your email address with a confirmation link. If you see no link, go to Special:ConfirmEmail. If that page starts with "Your email address was confirmed on <date>", then you're already confirmed. See figures 3 and 4.
- Figure 3 - How to request a confirmation email
- Figure 4 - Confirmation email was sent
Step 3
When you receive the email, click the link it contains to confirm that you own the email address. See figures 5 and 6.
- Figure 5 - View of the confirmation email
- Figure 6 - Email was successfully confirmed
Known issues
- MediaWiki does not verify that Email addresses are properly formatted when they are stored in the database. Users should verify that their email address is functional before entering it.
- Some email programs may divide the confirmation link into two lines. If that happens, please copy all parts of the link together into the browser address bar.
