Help:Get Started with Biography and Project Entries

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Here are some simple, non-obtrusive ways to join in on the wiki and share some of what you are interested in.

Contents 1 Create an account 2 Spruce up your "User" page 3 Adjust your preferences 4 Create a Biography Page 5 Create new articles about your project 6 Categorize your project article 6.1 The P2P Foundation How-To Library

Create an account

By creating an account you can edit pages. You can create links. You can do stuff. Create an account.

As soon as you create your account I recommend you head back to your email and confirm your email. This extra step will allow you to make edits on the site.

Spruce up your "User" page

As soon as you are logged into the site add a few links to that first page you land on. You could start by adding a link to your name like:

[[SDKrawler]] [[Derrick Thompson]]

Derrick Thompson SDKrawler

Then save the page, and you can see a red link, right?

Adjust your preferences

Once you save your user page, click on the preference link in the top right corner. These are your site preferences.

I recommend making sure that you adjust all the checkbox settings. Those make sure that you get notified about changes to pages you make on the wiki.

Create a Biography Page

"The P2P Foundation keeps a database of biographical entries in the "Bios" category at Category:Bios. Feel free to peruse the pages in this category to see examples of biographical entries and to gather ideas for your own. When you create a page please use the format "First Name Last Name" to match the formatting of the rest of the entries.

The easiest way to create an entry is to use this form: " (see Help:Creating a Biographical Entry)

Derrick Thompson SDKrawler

Create new articles about your project

"Add a new project entry to the site with this form. Use Capital Letters for Each Word! " (see Help:Creating a Project Entry)

Categorize your project article

Many of the articles on the wiki are sorted into categories. The templates above assign you some categories for your project.

Some of the major categories are Category:Peergovernance, Category:Peerproduction, Category:Peerproperty, and more at this page Special:Categories. Pick one or more that are right for your page by adding a category at the bottom of your article like this:

[[Category:Peergovernance]].

You probably added one like this when you made your Biography page, too? Did you see the instructions at the bottom to remove the 1st :(colon)?

This is a category => [[Category:Peergovernance]] Notice, only one colon between the Category and the name.

This is a link to a category [[:Category:Peergovernance]]  It has 2 colons.

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