Have some Tips and Tricks for doing stuff the easy (and right) way? Ever wanted to do that writeup of what you achieved with spec files? What about that news server howto in the upper drawer of your desk? That apache tuning paper on your computer? Your shortcut collection for Gnome? Or whatever might help people with using CentOS?

This is your chance: We're looking for contributors to the CentOS wiki, for people who want to spread their knowledge to other users, for people who actually like writing documentation.

Want to do it? It's easy. Head over to http://wiki.centos.org/. Find out where *your* contribution fits best.

Create a Login on that page with a username in the format FirstnameLastname.

Then subscribe to the centos-docs mailing list at http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs. After going through the subscription stuff write a mail to centos-docs@centos.org in which you describe *what* you want to put *where* on the wiki. If you know which name that page should get - that's even better.

Someone of the Wiki Admins will then create that page for you and give you edit permissions. Et voilà - you can create your page. Once you have contributed more than a little content and have shown a desire to keep it up(dated), we'll open up edit permissions for you.

Okay, I lied. It's not really easy. Believe us, we would like to have an open wiki where everyone can edit pages by just creating a login and then going ahead. But it's not possible for us to scan the wiki for changes all the time. Say thanks to the spammers who "contribute" everywhere they are able to.

About the mailing list: It's not only for contributing to the wiki, but also for discussing about articles (i.e. article quality) on the wiki - and possibly also for discussion about general CentOS documentation. We'll see.

See http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute for more information.

Thanks for letting me interrupt your reading of other fine mails on this list.

Ralph