Re: GURU contributions

On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 8:56=E2=80=AFPM Alexis <[email protected]> wrote=
:
>
> "D. Ben Knoble" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU#User_roles_and_responsibiliti=
es
> > =E2=80=A0[1] mentions 3 categories of users, none of which is
> > "contribute sans
> > access." It has no model or instructions for contributing
> > without
> > being a committer.
> >
> > Ditto
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU/Information_for_End_Users
> > and
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU/Information_for_Contributors.
>
> Ah okay, thank you. Unfortunately i don't have write access to any
> pages in Project namespaces.
>
> What i'll do is open a conversation about this on the relevant
> Discussion/Talk pages, to bring it to the attention of those
> who've previously worked on those pages.
>
> > If this process is generally accepted, I think a short line or 2
> > in
> > the relevant pages would be welcome and more discoverable.
>
> i agree, but the relevant devs might disagree, for one or more
> good reasons. :-)

Sounds good.

> > is there an easy way to copy a link to a wiki header? I found
> > the ID via "Inspect" in Firefox rather than
> > "click-to-copy". (After
> > writing this out, I realized I could use the table of contents,
> > probably, but that's less convenient when staring at a section.)
>
> Agreed. Yeah, i usually get it from the ToC.
>
> In _theory_, as described on the Help:Translating page, each
> section should be tagged:
>
> > Additionally, sections should be tagged like {{Anchor|<section
> > name in English>}} so any hash references are equal between
> > languages.
> --
>    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Help:Translating#Use_the_correct_link_sty=
le_so_that_translations_work
>
> but unfortunately that's not always the case, and adding such
> tagging is one of the things on my increasingly large wiki TODO
> list. :-) Although i also need to make sure i'm adding such
> tagging when i do page overhauls, such as the recent work i've
> done on the ALSA page ....
>
> Of course - and i say this as a general comment, rather than one
> specifically directed at Ben! - help in this regard would be
> greatly appreciated. :-) Adding tagging, and changing [[...]]
> links to {{Link|...}} to assist translation efforts, as the above
> link describes, is an easy way to start becoming more familiar
> with working on the wiki. And a general intro to contributing can
> be found at
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Wiki:Contributor's_guide .
>
>
> Alexis.

If you've got a todo list anywhere public, I'll try to keep the items
in mind as I find myself suggesting edits! (I find "as I go" is more
reliable than "sit down to knock this out on pages I don't care
about", but hey, team effort.)

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D. Ben Knoble