Free Software Directory:Participate

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The Free Software Directory is edited by a community of volunteers and FSF staff members.

Besides this wiki itself, there are two main channels to follow as part of your participation:

Anybody can update or submit new entries to the Directory, including their own programs. Please review the requirements for entries.
The project teams are subscribed to the mailing list and often attend the meetings, assisting and guiding the users when necessary.

Client system requirements

See also: Stack

To edit our wiki, you must have an FSF account. If you don't already have a Free Software Foundation Central Login (member or non-member), create one, and then click Log In on the Directory.

A web browser with JavaScript enabled

  • The Free Software Foundation Central Login requires JavaScript.
  • The MediaWiki stack requires JavaScript. We use more than MediaWiki, including Semantic MediaWiki, as well as some other extensions such as the Semantic Forms (see Special:Version for more information). We once tried doing the form without JavaScript, but to do this we will have to change how the form is built, as well as other templates, and entire namespaces (many pages) that are shown, queried or transcluded by it. It can be done, but it is no trivial/simple task.

Friday IRC Meeting

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) hosts the Friday IRC Meeting to help new volunteers get started working on the Directory, as well as to discuss ongoing or new Directory projects. See the Main Page for more details about the next meeting.

Edit the FSD with text editors/browsers

See our Collection:Text mode browsers, and IceCat WebExtensions for text editors.

Mentions

When you mention a user's profile or name, you must always sign. If you forget the signature (which must always be in the form --~~~~) make a minor change to add it.

In other words, please always make an internal link to the userpage of the person you are replying to with [[User:accountname]] and sign with --~~~~.ref Unsigned mentions will not produce a notification for the mentioned.

This is specially useful because, if you are commenting in a thread inside a talk page and if you follow this advice, you don't need to comment on the talk userpage of the person you are replying to.



Administration

Administration of MediaWiki

  • If you are an administrator looking for directions or scripts, check out the workflow page.
  • Website guidelines for people who want to make contributions to the layout and the design of the directory.
  • Check often for buggy entries and fix them.
  • Special:Version is useful for MediaWiki, and Semantic Forms, and so on, when you need to evaluate version specific syntax.
  • Finally, if you have experience and a particular interest that you want to work on, you can start or join a team:

Project Teams

Outreach

Dispute resolution



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