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At Wikipedia, deleting a page means (except in very rare circumstances) only that it's hidden from the view of readers and editors. So deleting personal subpages actually involves slightly more work for Wikipedia servers, more work for administrators, and more storage space used (see the section about page deletes).
Personal wiki software can be broadly divided into two categories: Multi-user applications with personal editions (such as MoinMoin or TWiki ), installed for standalone use and inaccessible to outside users, which may require additional software such as a web server , database management system and/or WAMP / LAMP bundle [ 1 ]
If you place non-public personal information about yourself on your user page, even if you have it deleted by Administrators, this deletion can draw the interest of other people. Trying to stop people from seeing something can just make people more interested in what you are trying to hide (the Streisand effect ).
If you have received any emails from Wikipedia, these will include the username. If you can remember the names of any of Wikipedia pages that you edited while logged in, the username will be listed as part of the page history of those pages. If you can remember the first part of the name, this search page may help you remember the rest of it.
Every time a wiki page is edited, and changes were actually made, a record is kept of the difference. For example, a page history shows the revisions for that particular page. But recent changes can report on more than just the revisions of a page, or an entire wiki, they can also report on the recent changes of an editor (their contributions).
The issue of how much personal information is tolerable and how much is "Myspacing" (a derogatory term for using a userpage as a social networking tool instead of as a means to help write Wikipedia) can be controversial, particularly since userboxes allow editors to display a massive amount of personal information with little time or effort ...
If you are new to Wikipedia, you might consider using the standard article format for your userpage initially. That should suffice while you're learning the ropes. If you don't have a user page yet and don't know how to create a page, then click on your user name at the top of the screen and follow the instructions (if the page already exists, your username will be blue instead of red).