GMWiki:Contribute

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roelcnabobo Do you want to help improve the GMWiki? Want to know what you can do? Well there is plenty you can do to help! The wiki is small, so it isn't as easy to help as it is on say, Wikipedia.

1 What you can do
2 Contributing can be painless
3 Write some Tutorials
4 Guidelines

[edit] What you can do

Import the functions from the GM Manual
Write some Requested Articles
Relate articles with See Also sections
Document some undocumented pages
Document some DLLs
Pick some things from the Contribute! category

[edit] Contributing can be painless

Doesn't sound like fun? Well heres a system I've been following that works pretty well:

Find a GMC topic.
Look on the GMWiki to see if it is already answered somehow.
If it isn't, write up a general answer to that topic in the wiki
Reply with a link to the GMWiki, perhaps with some light explanation to make it more specific to the problem.

I've been doing this for a while and it works pretty good. Its almost impossible to think of what people are looking for on the GMWiki when it comes to writing an article. But when things are written as they are needed, its virtually painless to envision what someone will need to solve a problem.

[edit] Write some Tutorials

Got a tutorial hanging around? Add it to the tutorial namespace. To put it in that namespace, take the following example. You want to make a tutorial about 'Moving Platforms'. So, make the page at Tutorial:Moving Platforms. More info is available at GMWiki:Tutorials