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− | == Introduction ==
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− | To help add or modify material in the wiki, you need to know a few basics about editing.
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− | See the [[Editing Quickstart Guide]] for a short introduction to editing pages.
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− | It is preferred that you create an account, so we know who you are when edits are made.
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− | See below for various ideas for things to edit on the site.
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− | == Subjects to Research ==
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− | List here pages or subjects you'd really like to see explored on the wiki:
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− | == Volunteering to improve the wiki ==
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− | Below please find links to various pages with information and ideas for content and feature additions
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− | to the eLinux wiki.
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− | (Various lists have crept up over the years, lets try to gather links to them here:)
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− | Lists of editor tasks:
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− | * [[Volunteer editor tasks]]
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− | * [[Embedded wiki issues list]]
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− | ** Specific cleanup tasks
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− | *** Resolve duplication between [[Embedded Linux Distributions]] and [[Hardware Hacking]] pages (and one other page mentioned by Klaas)
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− | * Create [[Wanted]] pages
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− | ** See also [[Special:Wantedpages]]
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− | A lot of wanted pages are just dangling links from the Help pages, for pages that were not
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− | created when we initially set up the wiki. I think most of these types of pages can just be
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− | set to stubs. Alternatively, we can look at the MediaWiki site and copy the page from their
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− | site for these dangling help examples.
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− | Another big set of wanted pages are for links between pages that were copied from
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− | the old CELF public wiki to here. This was done with some automated tools, which I think
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− | made some errors in the translation from MoinMoin to MediaWiki. If the
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− | legacy CELF page exists in this site, the link on the "requesting" page just needs to
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− | be repaired. If there is not matching page, then the link should just be removed.
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− | Just for fun, I'm keeping track over time of some metrics:
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− | === Wanted page count history ===
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− | ||Dec 12, 2008||233
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− | ||April 6, 2009||241 (why up?)
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− | ||April 15, 2010||122
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− | * add categories to [[Special:Uncategorizedpages|Uncategorized pages]]
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− | * de-orphan [[Special:Lonelypages|Orphaned pages]]
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− | To de-orphan a page, follow the link to the page, and create a link to it from
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− | an appropriate other page in the wiki. Before doing that, check to make sure that the
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− | information on the page is not duplicated somewhere else in the wiki (maybe by doing
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− | a search). Alternatively, sometimes the information can be copied from the orphan
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− | to someplace else, and the orphan removed. If you copy the information to somewhere else,
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− | just edit the orphan to make it empty, and add the page name to the list here, and an
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− | administrator will remove the page.
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− | List of empty orphan pages:
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− | * <put page name here>
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− | === Orphan page count history ===
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− | ||Date||Orphan page count
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− | ||Dec 12, 2008||122
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− | ||April 6, 2009||134 (what the heck?)
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− | ||Dec 2, 2009||89
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− | ||Dec 9, 2009||30
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− | Lists of administrator tasks:
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− | * [[Embedded wiki to-do list]] - a task list for administrators
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− | * [[Embedded Wiki wanted features]]
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− | Other lists:
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− | * [[Elinux issues]] - miscellaneous ideas of things to do
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− | == Resources for volunteers and wiki administrators ==
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− | To communicate with other elinux wiki volunteers, editors and administrators, please join
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− | * [[ELinuxWiki:Mailing List|Mailing list]]
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− | * [[eLinuxWiki:History|History page]] - has information about how we got here and why. Also, has links to pages used for previous activities, like contests and promotions.
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− | == Ideas to encourage contributions ==
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− | === systems to facilitate exiting content review ===
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− | * create email system that people can subscribe to, to review wiki pages a little at a time
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− | === systems to facilitate addition of content ===
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− | * ability to bounce an LKML email to a collector, possibly adding a tag
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− | ** collector would post to wiki, with tag
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− | * ability to forward and LKML email to a site, which returns you a URL (on e.g. lkml.org) for that message
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− | ** This makes it easier to link to an LKML message or thread.
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− | * ability to rate LKML messages on a web site
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− | == Donations ==
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− | We don't really have an official mechanism for donations of money.
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− | We are, however, looking for donations of items we can use for prizes
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− | for some of our upcoming contests. Embedded Linux-based products,
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− | or tools or books related to embedded Linux, would be most appreciated.
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− | If you have something like this, or a large donation (greater than $100), please
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− | contact [[User:TimBird|Tim Bird]] or [[User:wmat|Bill Traynor]].
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− | Tim is available at: tim (dot) bird (at) am (dot) sony (dot) com.
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− | Bill is available at: wmat (at) naoi (dot) ca.
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