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Creating an account is fast, easy, and free of charge. Although you are not required to create an account in order to read, edit, or contribute to Wikipedia, registering and using an account provides various benefits.

People who read, edit, or distribute articles, pages, or content that's published onto this project are not required to create a Wikipedia account and use one; doing so is of course encouraged, but is also completely voluntary and is a choice that anyone can make.^{[note 1]} So long as the relevant articles or pages are not protected, anyone is allowed to modify, edit, and save changes to them; no account is required. This is a founding principle on Wikipedia and its mission to be a completely open project that anyone can edit, update, improve, or fix.

Registering and using an account to contribute to Wikipedia provides benefits for those who choose to do so. These benefits include, but are not limited to, the ability to:

• Have a consistent identity. Temporary accounts expire after at most 90 days.
• Edit articles from most IP addresses that are blocked from editing Wikipedia.
• Choose a username, which will be reserved just for you. This unified login will work on Wikimedia's other projects, such as Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.
• Create your own user page to share information about yourself.
• Practice editing and publishing in your own sandbox.
• Communicate with other editors via your own user talk page, which will remain yours permanently. You can also opt in to exchanging emails with other users.
• Use custom preferences to change the look and behavior of Wikipedia and how it works for you. Temporary accounts can only change certain basic display settings.
• Use more advanced editing tools.

Once you have had an account for 4 days and made 10 edits, you can:

• Edit semi-protected pages, which display a gray lock on the top-right corner of the article. Temporary accounts and non-confirmed users cannot edit pages with this protection level.
• Create new articles, rename pages and upload files.

Once you have had an account for 30 days, and have made more than 500 edits, you can:

• Edit extended protected pages, which display a blue lock .^{[note 2]}

When you create an account, you can pick a user name, provided it is available and unique. Edits you make while logged in will be associated to the username of your account instead of your temporary account.

You will have your own permanent user page where you can write a bit about yourself. While Wikipedia is not a homepage provider, you can use this to display a few freely licensed pictures, write about your hobbies, etc. Many users use their user page to maintain a list of the articles they are most proud of, or to list other valuable information they've collected from Wikipedia.

You will also have a permanent user talk page that you can use to communicate with other users. You will be notified whenever someone writes a message on your talk page. If you choose to provide an email address with your account, other users will be able to contact you by e-mail if you choose. This feature is anonymous; the user who emails you will not know your email address unless you respond to them using your email address.

You are less identifiable logged in than you are with a temporary account (so long as you avoid disclosing identifiable information on your user page or in your username). A named account's IP address can only be viewed by a small number of users under limited circumstances, whereas temporary accounts' IP addresses can be viewed by a larger group with fewer limitations. You might want to consider privacy and the possibility of offline harassment when deciding what personal information to disclose.

Having an account gives you a fixed Wikipedia identity that other users will recognize. While we welcome contributions from unregistered editors, logging in under a user name lets you build trust and respect through a history of good edits, and makes it easier for veteran users to assume good faith, communicate and collaborate. Having a good name (or a pseudonym to protect your identity) promotes more responsible editing, and more civil discourse.

Sometimes new or unregistered users are prevented from editing pages that are common targets of vandalism (just as this page is protected, and only users with an account can edit it). Also, bots can mistake even good-faith temporary account edits for vandalism. For these reasons, edits under a user name tend to be more successful.

Having an account is a must for many processes in Wikipedia, such as voting for administrators or bureaucrats. As your reputation builds, it is possible to earn privileges such as rollback, sysop/administrator, and others. It is not possible for an unregistered editor to be granted these privileges.

Your user name may also receive recognition for good work such as Barnstars, Project Awards, Personal User Awards, or nomination for voted accolades like Editor of the Week. You'll receive much more of this kind of recognition with a permanent account.

As a registered user, you can customize the way pages are displayed by altering your preferences. There, in the Appearance tab, you can change the following display settings:

• Under Skin: various options as to the appearance of the website
• Under Math: how mathematical formulas are displayed
• Under Files: how large image thumbnails should be

And various editing preferences:

• How your username signature appears on talk pages
• How pages should be displayed in recent changes
• and many others

People who have Wikipedia accounts can gain access to vital reliable sources via The Wikipedia Library.

Shared IP addresses such as school and enterprise networks or proxy servers are frequently blocked for vandalism which, unfortunately, may also affect innocent editors on the same network. However, registered users in good standing can request existing blocks on their IP address be modified to affect only unregistered editors so that they can continue contributing to Wikipedia. If you are currently blocked from creating an account, we suggest you do one of the following:

• Try again after the block on your IP address expires. Go to my contributions and follow the Block log link at the top of that page to find the length of the block. If no block appears, go to Special:BlockList and copy the IP address which appears at the top of Special:MyPage into the box next to "IP address for username:".
• Request an account by following the instructions at Wikipedia:Request an account.
• If your IP address is globally blocked, request an account by following the instructions at Wikipedia:Request an account and request global IP block exemption.

See the Blocking policy for details.

To create an account, click on the "Create an account now" link and fill out the required fields. This will be logged, and your account will be created.

Related Wikipedia information pages

• Why not create an account? – Reasons to edit without creating an account.
• Request an account – How any user may request an account be created for them.
• Wikipedia:Username policy § Deleting and merging accounts – Why it is not possible to delete user accounts and the alternatives available.
• Help:Logging in – Help for logging in to an existing account.
• Advice for parents – Brief introduction to Wikipedia for parents and legal guardians.
• Contributing to Wikipedia – How and where you can help Wikipedia.
• Personal security practices – How caution should be used when posting personally identifiable information online.
• Privacy, confidentiality and discretion – How your rights to privacy may not extend as far as you believe.
• Special:ListUsers – Search usernames currently in use on Wikipedia, or those in a specified group.
• meta:No external sign-on – Why we do not allow external sign-on services, such as Google, on Wikipedia.

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