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How can you help

This is a rough draft of things users can help with on the XBMC Wiki.

• Spam/vandalism monitoring. Check Special:RecentChanges for obvious spam or vandalism.
• Go through all pages in Category:Outdated and rate them (template will be updated to be ratable) as for how outdated they are (as in, can't be updated, applies to a past version, or maybe a 1-5 scale)
• Update the Quick Start Guide.
• Update the manual- Major re-organization here needed. There will basically be "two" manuals (though pages can be included in both): A basic user's manual, and an advanced user/developer manual. In the advanced/developer manual will be the sub-manual for Skins, Add-ons, etc.
• Figure out better page navigation. Right now we use the XBMC TOC templates for most of the navigation, along with wiki links and categories. We need some kind of mini/sub-category navigation template for small groupings of pages.
• Templates to make data entry easier: For example {{Remote}}, which will be expanded with many more parameters. There could also be a template to help with step-by-step instructions, with options for screen shots.
• Categorization! Need to plan out a proper category tree
• Editing 101 help links- basic help info for editing a wiki, as well as listing any special features such as sectional transclusion.
• Adding pages for each add-on, skin, repo, etc.
• Guidance on user created content.

Proposed wiki skeleton

Note: pages can fall under more than one heading

User manual- core

Screen-by-screen- labels and such

Core guides and how-to's

advanced info

User manual- extras

Page for each add-on

Page for each skin

Pages for supplemental tools

Development manual

Skin development manual

Add-on development manual

Various other

Meta pages- people, history, events, etc

More general community content

how-to's for various XBMC related things/setups

User pages with individual community users' personal setups

Pages for custom keymap XML files, etc

Common hardware write-ups/ setups

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