[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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Editing, expanding and improving existing articles is a great way to start contributing to a Wiki-style documentation. Being a collaborative project, any and all improvements and corrections are welcome. | Editing, expanding and improving existing articles is a great way to start contributing to a Wiki-style documentation. Being a collaborative project, any and all improvements and corrections are welcome. | ||
+ | As a contributor, | ||
===== Substantive writing ===== | ===== Substantive writing ===== | ||
+ | When you are confident enough to go beyond editing and improving existing articles, here are some ideas for substantive contributions to the wiki, in no particular order. | ||
==== Technical HOWTOs/ | ==== Technical HOWTOs/ | ||
- | Technical HOWTOs for specific | + | Technical HOWTOs for performing |
Some examples of technical HOWTOs may be: | Some examples of technical HOWTOs may be: | ||
- | * How to set up a wireless network. | + | * How to set up a [[slackbook: |
* How to set up a web/ | * How to set up a web/ | ||
- | * How to configure | + | * How to configure |
and so on. | and so on. | ||
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==== General articles ==== | ==== General articles ==== | ||
- | These are articles that do not target any specific technical issue but focus instead on larger issues. A general article needs no specific technical know-how to write, but may be expanded later to provide links or short pointers to in-depth sources of knowledge on the same subject. | + | These are articles that do not target any specific technical issue but focus instead on larger issues. A general article needs no specific technical know-how to write, but may be expanded later to provide links or short pointers to in-depth sources of knowledge on the same or similar subjects. |
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+ | An example of a general article is the one on [[slackware: | ||
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+ | =====Unacceptable topics===== | ||
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+ | Although a Wiki grants a lot of freedom to its contributors, | ||
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+ | * Subjective opinions or rants. These style of articles belong to blogs and not to information-sharing Wikis. | ||
+ | * Topics which are too philosophically oriented. The main Slackware philosophy is already discussed in [[slackware: | ||
+ | * Topics which are critical of other distributions or the way other distributions or its maintainers/ | ||
+ | * Any topic that is more discussion oriented than information oriented. For example, KDE vs. Xfce, or DE vs. WM. Discussing the preferences for desktop choice is a subjective opinion and not an information article, unless of course, the article has a specific technical input on the subject. | ||
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+ | Potential contributors should also check for the existence of a topic in the Wiki before creating a new page with a similar topic. Avoiding duplication of effort is part of what a Wiki is all about. | ||
+ | =====Sources===== | ||
+ | * Originally written by [[wiki: |