Revision as of 20:19, 20 October 2009

Work In Progress about help/contribute stuff

Current situation

I can see so far 3 pages concerning it:

Help:Contents which talks about What is Userbase, some guidelines, and some guide to contribute.
UserBase which talks about What is Userbase
UserBase/Guidelines which is actually more a "Code of conduct": license problem, be nice with other, mixed with some advices to contribute

Proposed re-organisation

Rename link to Help:Contents as "Contribute" in the side-bar, and focus on this page on the step-by-step contribute starting guide.
Clean UserBase so that it talks only about what is Userbase, and link it through a "What is Userbase" or "Help" link in the sidebar.
Clean the Guidelines so that it talks about the code of conduct, move everything related to contribute howto on the Contribute (Help:Contents) page.

Potential outline for the 3 pages

Help:Contents page

Quick-Start Contributing

--> just a renaming of the 'How to contribute' current section

Who can contribute?

"everyone can, and actually you don't even need an account, but it's better because ... and ... and you can be awarded in the top contributors ;p"

Get a new account

howto

What content belongs to KDE Userbase

Where to put new articles

The procedure

same content + the review and policy conventions sections appended.

Editing workflow

Start editing

Type your changes

Summarize your changes

Preview before saving

Saving

Following future modification

Watching a page

UserBase page

What is UserBase

This section looks perfect to me already

Ready to contribute

I would shorten it and redirect to the "Contribute" (formerly Help:Contents) page.

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 = Potential outline for the 3 pages =
-=== Help:Contents page ===
+== Help:Contents page ==
-==== Quick-Start Contributing ====
+=== Quick-Start Contributing ===
 --> just a renaming of the 'How to contribute' current section
-==== Who can contribute? ====
+=== Who can contribute? ===
 "everyone can, and actually you don't even need an account, but it's better because ... and ... and you can be awarded in the top contributors ;p"
-===== get a new account =====
+==== Get a new account ====
 howto
-==== What content belongs to KDE Userbase ====
+=== What content belongs to KDE Userbase ===
-===== Where to put new articles =====
+==== Where to put new articles ====
-===== The procedure =====
+==== The procedure ====
 same content + the review and policy conventions sections appended.
-==== Editing workflow ====
+=== Editing workflow ===
-===== Start editing =====
+==== Start editing ====
-===== Type your changes =====
+==== Type your changes ====
-===== Summarize your changes =====
+==== Summarize your changes ====
-===== Preview before saving =====
+==== Preview before saving ====
-===== Saving =====
+==== Saving ====
-==== Following future modification ====
+=== Following future modification ===
-===== Watching a page =====
+==== Watching a page ====
-=== UserBase page ===
+----
-==== What is UserBase ====
+== UserBase page ==
+=== What is UserBase ===
 This section looks perfect to me already
-==== Ready to contribute ====
+=== Ready to contribute ===
 I would shorten it and redirect to the "Contribute" (formerly Help:Contents) page.
+----
 === UserBase/Guidelines page ===