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Contribution and Moderation Process Overview

ASDSO's Dam Safety Toolbox is written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system. Contribution from users is encouraged to continually expand and improve the content and resources available on the site. Suggested edits will not be viewable by other users until they have been reviewed and approved by website editors.

Volunteer editors from ASDSO's Dam Design and Construction Committee moderate and maintain the website. Subject matter expert editors are responsible for reviewing all technical content prior to publication. Once technical content has been reviewed and approved for publication, website editors are responsible for moderating edits within the MediaWiki environment in accordance with the Dam Owner Toolbox Formatting/Style Guide and Policies and Procedures Guide.

Getting Started

In order to contribute, users must register for an account and be logged in. Users can contribute content either by editing existing pages (click the Edit icon on any topic page) or creating new pages. Contributions are made using the markup language called wikitext which consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page. To facilitate consistency in format and functionality of the website, users are encouraged to

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Configuration settings list
MediaWiki FAQ
MediaWiki release mailing list
Localise MediaWiki for your language

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-== How to Contribute ==
+== Contribution and Moderation Process Overview ==
-ASDSO's Dam Safety Toolbox is written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system. Contribution from users is encouraged to continually expand and improve the content and resources available on the site. You can contribute content by editing existing pages (click the Edit icon on any topic page) or creating new pages. You must register for an account and be logged in to suggest edits or add new pages. Suggested edits will not be viewable by other users until they have been reviewed and approved by website editors.
+ASDSO's Dam Safety Toolbox is written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system. Contribution from users is encouraged to continually expand and improve the content and resources available on the site. Suggested edits will not be viewable by other users until they have been reviewed and approved by website editors.
-Volunteer editors from ASDSO's Dam Design and Construction Committee moderate and maintain the website. Subject matter expert editors are responsible for reviewing all technical content prior to publication. Once technical content has been reviewed and approved for publication, website editors are responsible for moderating edits within the MediaWiki environment in accordance with the [Dam Owner Toolbox Formatting/Style Guide] and [Policies and Procedures Guide].
+Volunteer editors from ASDSO's Dam Design and Construction Committee moderate and maintain the website. Subject matter expert editors are responsible for reviewing all technical content prior to publication. Once technical content has been reviewed and approved for publication, website editors are responsible for moderating edits within the MediaWiki environment in accordance with the [[Dam Owner Toolbox Formatting/Style Guide]] and [[Policies and Procedures Guide]].
-== Getting started ==
+== Getting Started ==
+In order to contribute, users must register for an account and be logged in. Users can contribute content either by editing existing pages (click the Edit icon on any topic page) or creating new pages. Contributions are made using the markup language called wikitext which consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page. To facilitate consistency in format and functionality of the website, users are encouraged to
 * Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
 * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]