There are four steps to making a home here once you have your own site. In other systems this would be like filling out your profile page. Do these steps in any order.
Tip: Drag paragraphs or the marker to mark progress.
done
Claim the site by being the first to login. See where in the footer it says, Sign in with your Email, or maybe just a lock icon? Click that button. Login mechanisms vary from site to site so follow the instructions that pop up.
Choose a flag that you like. The flags are color gradients that we use in lots of places. We picked gradients, you pick colors. See About Flagmatic Plugin
Tell us your name. Return to the Welcome Visitors page and write your full and friendly name in the first gray field. Make it a link if you want to tell us more, like your various internet handles. Write these on the new page.
Tell us what you are doing. You might just be Exploring Wiki. Say that. Make it a link. Go to that page and write about your explorations. You can change all this later.
todo
learnings
Learnings: When logged out, nothing works. It's not obvious in the page context except for the absence of flags.
Logged-out is different from being logged-in in the context of your wiki but not the given page you're looking at.
The terminology is not baked into my mindset yet. When I looked at Elements of Mastery, following "Click the word wiki..." trying to figure out why nothing was working, I didn't know if my understanding of the process was lacking, perhaps not getting it for another reason.
This returns me to a current story of my learning style. I need to repeat an operation in context, successfully, in order to gain a confident picture of what is going on. For example, seeing that the history icons are absent from the bottom of a page is not yet - 2021-09-05 - a reflexive operation. Like learning to operate a motor vehicle (or to walk upright!), some context is essential to the operation, some is incidental, some is distracting.
I had to guess that the PageFlow plugin produced named page separators. I couldn't right-click a named separator to examine it in wiki context, nor was it obvious in the edit box for the named separator that this was a PageFlow item (item, paragraph, piece o'wiki page).
It turns out the correct term for paragraph, image, etc. within a wiki page is indeed Item, and the documented way to get help on an Item editor is Ctrl-I in Windows (Alt-I or Cmd-I in other contexts).
I don't have enough ground under my feet to feel good exploring. In the approach/avoid sense, it's easy for me to fall into hesitation after getting multiple "this doesn't work", "that doesn't work", "the other thing doesn't work", and I end up at HOW DOES THIS WORK?
So I am deliberately leaning forward a little after getting through the bit on You're New Here about claiming the wiki by being the first to log in "and click the lock at the bottom of the frame". It reads like a casual aside, but was in fact the key to my whole problem of coming back after a couple of weeks, logged-out and lost.