Difference between revisions of "Portal:Contribute"

Revision as of 21:43, 30 March 2015

Contribute
Be part of TangoWiki.

TangoWiki lives of your contribution. You can create edit and improve articles, comment and discuss, upload files and add images to articles... bring in your ideas, get involved. Every contribution is welcome.

WHERE TO START

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.

WHERE TO START

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

What you can do already:

Browse and read existing articles.
Set up your user account.
Improve existing content. Just hit edit and correct a typo.
Add content, create new articles.
Expand short articles.
Translate articles into your language.
Take over tasks in the task list.
Last but not least: Follow the news and spread the word. Engage on Twitter and Facebook.

Improve

Edit any page

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

On pages filled by 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!

Categorize

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

Learn more

For newbies

You might have a look into the list of wanted pages to see, what pages are missing.

Create

For festival organizers

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:

Create a festival main page with the festival form. Add general data, location, organizers.
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.

For milonga organizers

Venue form for creating a new article about a venue for milongas, festivals, marathons etc
All venues

For TJs

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

Get deeper into it!

Read and expand Short pages

Create Wanted pages
List of all pages, that have been linked to, but still need to get created.

Add News for the main page

Add ideas to the Pool of ideas

Maintain TangoWiki

Important maintenance reports of Special pages:

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

Check pages in maintenance categories:

Special pages for admins:

Task list: Open tasks to solve
Content ideas: List of content ideas

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

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+<big>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.</big>
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-<big>Contribute to your preferred topics. If some content is missing, ask for it or create it yourself. '''Be brave.''' Any change can be improved or undone. This is the power of a wiki.</big>
+The '''[[Help:User manual|user manual]]''' in the help section is introducing the work in the wiki. You shall find help to all sections there.
-What you can do:
+What you can do already:
-*[[Help:Create new article|Create]] new articles.
+*[[Help:Navigation in the wiki|Browse]] and read existing articles.
-*Expand, improve existing articles.
+*[[Help:Set up user account|Set up your user account]].
+*'''Improve''' existing content. Just hit ''edit'' and correct a typo.
+*'''Add''' content, '''[[Help:Create new article|create]]''' new articles.
+*Expand short articles.
 *[[Special:Translate|Translate]] articles into your language.
 *Take over tasks in the [[Task:Task list|task list]].
-*Follow the [[TangoWiki:News|news]] and spread the word. Engage on [https://www.twitter.com/TangoWiki Twitter] and [https://www.facebook.com/TangoWiki Facebook].
+*Last but not least: Follow the [[TangoWiki:News|news]] and spread the word. Engage on [https://www.twitter.com/TangoWiki Twitter] and [https://www.facebook.com/TangoWiki Facebook].
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+{{Portal Box
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+ | title      = Edit any page
+ | content    = <div>
+You can edit any content page by hitting the tab '''"Edit'''".
+[[File:editeditwithform.png|300px]]
+On pages filled by 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!''
+}}
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+ | color      = 669999
+ | title      = Categorize
+ | content    = <div>
+#Consult the help article: [[Help:Add categories to article|Add categories to article]] on what is important in categorizing.
+#See the [[Special:Categories|list of all categories]] for an overview. Some categories are added automatically through templates.
+#Start with categorizing [[Special:UncategorizedPages|pages in the list of uncategorized pages]].
+</div>
+}}
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+{{Portal Subheader|title=Learn more|langcode=en}}
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-The '''[[Help:User manual|user manual]]''' in the help section is introducing the work in the wiki. Start with the [[Help:Short instruction|short instruction]]. More topics:
-*[[Help:Set up user account|Set up user account]]
 *[[Help:Create new article|Create new article]]
 *[[Help:Text formatting|Text formatting]] & [[Help:Links|Links]]
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-If you want to add a new festival, use the '''[[Form:Festival|festival form]]'''. Have a look at [[:Category:Festival|all other festivals]] first. To view only festival events happening in 2015, visit [[Concept:Festivals 2015|all Festivals in 2015]].
+If you want to add a new festival, use the '''[[Form:Festival|festival form]]'''. Check for [[:Category:Festival|existing festivals]] first. Also view [[Concept:Festivals 2015|all festivals in 2015]] and the [[World map of festivals]].
 How to create a festival in 2015:
-#Create a main festival page with the [[Form:Festival|festival form]]. Add general data, location, organizers.
+#Create a '''festival main page''' with the [[Form:Festival|festival form]]. Add general data, location, organizers.
-#Create a festival event on the main festival page with the form there. Add dates, maestros, TJs and program.
+#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:
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 <span style="font-size: smaller;">List of all pages, that have been linked to, but still need to get created.</span>
-[[Help:Add categories to article|Add categories to article]]<br />
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