User:Kolia
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.