add FAQ wiki instructions to Admin Quick Start
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@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ You'll want to come back and spend time exploring your admin dashboard. But firs
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### Enter Required Settings
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Go to the [Required tab](/admin/site_settings/category/required) of the site settings and enter all the required fields. **Until you set these required fields, _your Discourse is broken!_**
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Go to the [Required tab](/admin/site_settings/category/required) of the site settings and enter all the required fields. **Until you set these required fields, _your Discourse is broken!_** Go ahead and do that now.
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We'll wait.
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### Customize Logos and Colors
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@ -92,26 +94,21 @@ Note that pinning topics works a little differently in Discourse:
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- Users can hide pins on topics once they have read them via the controls at the bottom of the topic, so they don't stay pinned forever for everyone.
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- When you pin a topic, you can choose to pin it globally to all topic lists, or pin it only within its category.
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### New User Sandbox and the Trust System
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### Build Your Own FAQ
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Discourse is designed to offer safe defaults for communities, even with no active moderation. There is a [trust system in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/2) where regular users automatically earn abilities to assist in governing the community.
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Right now [your FAQ](/faq) is the same Creative Commons [universal rules of civilized discourse](http://blog.discourse.org/2013/03/the-universal-rules-of-civilized-discourse/) we provide to all Discourse installs. These built-in community guidelines are referenced a bunch of places; please *do* use them and refer to them often -- they really work!
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All new users start out at trust level zero, in a sandbox with restrictions for everyone's safety. **Trust level zero users _cannot_** …
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However, if you want to set up a more detailed FAQ dealing with the specifics of *your* community, here's how:
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- post more than 2 hyperlinks
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- post any images or file attachments
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- send private messages
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- flag posts or topics
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- have actual links in the "about me" field of their profile
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- @name mention more than 2 users in a post
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1. Create a new [meta topic](category/meta), titled "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" or similar.
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There are also a lot of rate limits around how many actions new users can take. Of course, new users don't stay new users forever; reading a variety of topics is enough to [transition to trust level 1](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/2) in about 15 minutes.
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2. Use the admin wrench icon below the post to make it a wiki post. This means the post is now editable to any user with a trust level of 1 or higher.
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These defaults are safe, but they may be too conservative for your site:
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3. Note the URL to that topic.
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- If you are pre-vetting users, or your site is private and you approve all new users manually, you can set everyone's `default trust level` to 1.
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4. Paste that URL into the `faq url` setting in the admin site settings. This links your topic from the hamburger FAQ menu entry at the top right of every page.
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- You can individually adjust these conservative default new user restrictions. Search the settings for `newuser`. Two settings we see commonly adjusted are `newuser max images` and `newuser max replies per topic`.
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Done -- now you have a community FAQ for your site that is collaboratively editable, and linked from every page on the site.
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### Categories
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- If you'd rather store your images and files on Amazon S3, [follow this howto](http://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-image-uploads-to-s3/7229).
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### New User Sandbox and the Trust System
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If your discussion area is be open to the public, new visitors will arrive that are initially strangers to the community.
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Discourse is designed to offer safe defaults for public communities, even with no active moderation. There is a [trust system in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/2) where regular users automatically earn abilities to assist in governing the community.
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> **0 (new) → 1 (basic) → 2 (regular) → 3 (leader) → 4 (elder)**
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All new users start out at trust level zero, in a sandbox with restrictions for everyone's safety. **Trust level zero users _cannot_** …
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- post more than 2 hyperlinks
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- post any images or file attachments
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- send private messages
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- flag posts or topics
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- have actual links in the "about me" field of their profile
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- @name mention more than 2 users in a post
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There are also a lot of rate limits around how many actions new users can take. Of course, new users don't stay new users forever; reading a variety of topics is enough to [transition to trust level 1](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/2) in about 15 minutes.
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These defaults are safe, but they may be too conservative for your site:
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- If you are pre-vetting users, or your site is private and you approve all new users manually, you can set everyone's `default trust level` to 1.
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- You can individually adjust these default new user restrictions. Search the settings for `newuser`. Two settings we see commonly adjusted are `newuser max images` and `newuser max replies per topic`.
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### User Content Licensing
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Out of the box, Discourse defaults to [Creative Commons licensing](https://creativecommons.org/).
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