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Contribute to your preferred topics. If some content is missing, ask for it or create it yourself. Be brave and bold. Any change can be improved or undone. This is the power of a wiki.

What you can do straightaway:

• Browse and read existing articles.
• Set up your user account and fill your user page.
• Follow the news and spread the word. Engage on Twitter and Facebook.

There are currently 14 users registered in the wiki, working on 1,042 content pages and 2,821 total pages.

You can edit any content page by hitting the tab "Edit".

If the page makes use of a form, you can also edit the content by clicking "Edit with form".

Correct typos, improve the language style, add missing information. Try it out, it's fun!

Overall, 13,810 edits have been made in the wiki.

For ideas and anything you cannot or don't want to add/change yourself, you can create a new task in the Task list. Use the task form for this.

A lot of content was added by English non-native speakers, so when you are a native speaker yourself and spot something peculiar in the language, go ahead and correct it. (You could even start with this sentence… ;)

1. Consult the help article: Add categories to article on what is important in categorizing.
2. See the list of all categories for an overview. Some categories are added automatically through templates.
3. Start with categorizing pages in the list of uncategorized pages.

If you know a lot about recordings (labels, recording dates, sides etc), you can improve the recordings. To get the recordings listed, look on the orchestra and song pages.

Many maestros have videos on YouTube of their performances. Use <mediaplayer>YouTube video link</mediaplayer> to add videos to the maestro pair pages.

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On commons.tangowiki.org all the images are stored. If you own the image rights, you can upload and categorize images there.

If you are a photographer, why not give away some photos of locations, venues, festivals?

If you want to add a new festival, use the festival form. Check for existing festivals first. Also view all festivals in 2015 and the World map of festivals.

How to create a festival in 2015:

1. Create a festival main page with the festival form. Add general data, location, organizers.
2. Create a (yearly) festival event page on the festival main page with the little form field there. Add dates, maestros, TJs and program.

Help with the festival form:

• Create festival article: Short instruction helping with the form.
• Gouda Tango Festival (Example page): Example for a festival page, you can try editing the form there.

When you add a festival, you might see some tango teachers missing. You can add them like this:

• Maestro pair form: Write the maestros (lady first, connect with "y"). If you know of a website, add it.
• Add information about the maestros and maybe videos and further links.
• All maestro pairs

• Venue form for creating a new article about a venue for milongas, festivals, marathons etc. You'll need the venue for the milonga.
• Use the milonga form for a new milonga.
• All venues, All milongas.

If needed, consult the help pages for using these forms.

• TJ form for creating a new TJ page
• Max Gouda (Example page): Example for a TJ page
• All TJs

You might have a look into the list of wanted pages to see what pages are missing. (List of all pages, that have been linked to, but still need to get created.) You can also create a new page simply by entering the desired page name here (case-sensitive!):

• Move over to the translation interface and translate articles in little pieces into your language. Simply choose the pages you'd like to translate, choose the target language (your mother tongue) and start hitting your keyboard.

If you're looking for help, see about translating a page in the user manual.

Whenever you see "Translate this page" at the top of on an article page, you can directly translate this page into your language.

• Before Spanish song lyrics can be translated into virtually any language, they need to get translated manually into English. Find all waiting songs in the category Category:Lyrics need English translation.

The user manual in the help section is introducing the work in the wiki. You shall find help to all sections there.

• Create new article
• Text formatting & Links
• Discussion page
• Use templates
• Use forms

• Read and expand Short pages.
• Add News for the main page.
• Add ideas to the Pool of ideas.

Read about TangoWiki and the project.

In general, you find help for maintaing TangoWiki in the Expert manual in the help section.

• Watch RecentChanges
• Watch Statistics
• Add Message boxes

Important maintenance reports of Special pages:

• Wanted categories: Pages which have been linked to, but that are still to be created
• Wanted templates
• Pages without links

Check pages in maintenance categories:

• Move proposals
• Pages with broken file links

Special pages for admins:

• Tasks: Open tasks to solve
• Content ideas: List of content ideas

You find all special pages on the toolbar on the left under Special Pages.

Translation:

• Prepare a page for translation

You can ask a question to a certain page on the connected discussion page.

Simply "Add topic" and ask your question.

For any inquiry concerning TangoWiki that cannot find a place in the wiki itself, contact the core team at contact_at_tangowiki.org.