MoodleDocs:Guidelines for contributors
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Introduction
- You are welcome to contribute to Moodle Docs. Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, and fix it!
- If you've not done so already, please login.
- Please note that all contributions are released here under GNU General Public License.
- From Moodle 1.6 onwards, every page in Moodle has a link to a corresponding page in Moodle Docs. You can see this on moodle.org and, from an administrator's perspective, on the Moodle demo site.
- Please note that the Moodle help files will remain in each language pack and so their text need not be included in this documentation, though a small amount of duplicate information is ok.
- You are encouraged to illustrate documentation with screenshots. Please refer to the style guide for further information.
- There are tags you can place to ask for editing help from other contributors. These include requests for page deletion, updating and stub notations.
Creating new pages
- You are welcome to create pages for additional documentation. Simply type the name of your new page between double brackets
[[New page name]]
on an existing page and follow the link to start editing the new page. Alternatively, you may type in your browser address bar:https://docs.moodle.org/en/New_page_name
(i.e. replace spaces in the new page name with underscores). - Please choose a short name and capitalize the first word only (with a few exceptions, such as the word Moodle).
- New developer documentation pages should be added to the Development namespace by typing
Development:
before the new page name i.e.[[Development:New page name]]
. - Please follow the style guide, in particular ensuring that new pages are categorized.
- Page titles may be changed in the future by redirecting/moving pages, as part of documentation restructuring.
Inter-language linking
- You are welcome to add inter-language links between pages in different languages. Simply type, for example,
[[es:Corresponding page title in Spanish]]
in the English MoodleDocs, or[[en:Corresponding page title in English]]
in the Spanish MoodleDocs, at the bottom of the page, below the category link. Inter-language links will appear automatically in the "In other languages" block.
Moodle version templates
- When adding documentation about a new feature, please add a Moodle version template by typing, for example,
{{Moodle 1.9}}
. - In addition to highlighting differences in Moodle versions, Moodle version templates automatically categorize articles into version categories, for example Category:Moodle 1.9.
- Templates for Moodle versions no longer available from Moodle downloads can be removed and replaced with ordinary text, for example "From Moodle 1.5 onwards, ...".
Page comments
- For comments about a particular page, and/or short discussions, please use the corresponding talk page (click on the page comments tab). Please sign and date your talk page contribution by typing four tildes ~~~~.
- For longer discussions about the documentation, please use the Using Moodle Documentation forum.