Groupprops:How to contribute
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This page lists important ways in which people can contribute to the groupprops effort at this stage.
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You can contribute by just reading!
The fact that you are reading, and finding useful, material that was out on Groupprops, is itself a contribution to the Groupprops effort. And you are urged to contribute more and more by reading more and more.
To make us aware of your contribution, and to make your own experience here best, it's recommended that you register yourself and explore groupprops while staying signed in. If you have any apprehensions about contributing, check out Groupprops:Who can join.
Become a registered user and contribute
The first step to becoming a regular contributor to groupprops is to become a registered user. Click on the link at the top right hand saying Create Account/Log In and create an account, entering your user name, real name, and a password.
Once you are a registered user, you can create your own watchlist, you can make contributions to article pages, you can also post your views on an article and what it should contain (All such posting should be on the discussion page of the article). Learn more about this at Groupprops:Customize your experience.
As of now, the overall structure and edit policies of the wiki have not yet been designed, so please refrain from making major edits in the meantime. Please suggest major restructuring of articles or other things in the discussion page.
Feedback
Suggesting new articles
If you would like a new article, please go to Groupprops:Article requesting and add a separate subsection with the name of the article you want, along with whatever information you need in the article.
Rating articles
Feedback and suggestions are among the best ways you can help Groupprops grow, and the more specific and pointed the feedback, the better. For every article, the talk page of the article can be used as a forum for you to rate the article. For many articles, we already have talk pages that are up and running, where you can insert your comments at appropriate places. Even if you hit upon a blank talk page, feel free to insert your comments (don't hesitate about messing up the format, since the talk pages are anyway meant just for comments and discussions).
For instance, the talk page on the article on group asks people to rate the article on various parameters.
Rating themes
We also plan to have, at Groupprops, talk pages where you can rate the coverage of particular themes in Groupprops, and provide your suggestions for the same.
Generic feedback
Feel free to provide generic feedback at Groupprops:Feedback.
Adding new information
History/origin of terms
Groupprops is currently very weak in documenting the history of its terms.
Note that some Groupprops articles are on terminology local to the wiki. These articles should not have a history section. On the other hand, there are other articles which claim to refer to standard or semi-standard terminology. All these articles should have a history section.
- If you find such an article without a history section, edit the page as follows: below the initial templates, and before the text of the article begins, put the following:
==History==
{{history missing}}
This template will generate the text stating that the history of the term/fact is not documented.
- If you see, in an article, a History section with text stating that the history is missing, and you have something of the history to contributre, click on the edit button for that section, and add the history. Do not forget to remove the history missing tag if oyu add some history.
- If you see an article with some history material, but want to add some more, feel free to edit/modify it.
To learn about what should go in the history section, check out Groupprops:History.
Definition of terms
Sometimes, you may be aware of another equivalent definition of a term. Add this to the list of equivalent definitions, both in the symbol-free definition and the definition with symbols.
If you are not sure about what exactly you want to add, you can put the stuff on the discussion page for the article. A link to the discussion page is there on the top (above the article, second link from the left).
Any miscellaneous facts
This is the place where your help could come in really useful. For instance, you may have seen a rider somewhere which says: If N is a balsamic subgroup of G and H is an intermediate subgroup then N is a balsamic subgroup of H. Now, while reading the article on normality, you note that this thing is called the intermediate subgroup condition, and thus, in the Metaproperties section for balsamic subgroup, you add a part saying that it satisfies the intermediate subgroup condition.
Any miscellaneous proofs
This is another place where your help could come in really useful. While i have attempted to fill in proofs wherever I had the full proof details and the energy, there are a number of proofs I missed out.
- If you spot a link to a proof that has not been filled in, follow the link, and fill in the proof. Use the guidelines for filling a proof.
References
Groupprops would like to be portal for all links to important references pertinent to a given term. Read about the Groupprops policies on references at Groupprops:References.
- If you find an article without a References section, add the following text near the bottom of the page (i.e. after the main article but before the External links section):
==References==
{{references missing}}
The references missing template generates text saying that the article does not have any good references.
- If you find an article without references, or with the above text, then click on the edit button of the References section, and add the references (a complete format for References has not been decided, so add whatever way you feel like).
- Even if there already exist references, you can add more of your own
External links
Groupprops would also like to be a portal for external web links to important encycloapedias, online papers, articles, expositions, and surveys. Note that even if a reference given is an online one, the actual link for it should be in the External links section.
- If you do not see an External links section, add right at the bottom of the page:
==External links==
{{external links missing}}
This will generate text asying that there are no (good enough) external links.
- You can add external links. Learn more about this at Groupprops:External links
Fixings and small jobs
Dead-end pages
Check out Special:Deadendpages for a list of pages from which there are no further links. Check these pages for obvious links that should be there outward from those pages.
Orphaned pages
Check out Special:Lonelypages for a list of pages with no inward links to them. In order to locate places from where inward links to them can be put, do a search for the term, or use other techniques to locate references to the term. See if a link can be meaningfully put from the search points.
Categorization
Check out Special:Uncategorizedpages for a list of pages that are not yet categorized. If, for any of these pages, you can naturally fit a category based on your current understanding of the wiki, then fit that category.
Most of the categories coming from property spaces etc. are not directly written by are included by means of inclusion templates. The inclusion template for a category is given in the page for the category.
Also check out Special:Unusedcategories and Special:Uncategorizedcategories to locate problems regarding categories that need fixing.
