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The Inkscape project welcomes contributions to its website at https://inkscape.org/. Your help is valuable in different areas, and this page provides info to guide you.

We always need editors, translators, testers, designers and developers — and if you think you can help in any of those areas, please contact us by sending a mail to the translators' mailing list (for translations) or the documentation mailing list (for website development and contents).

Editing

If you would like to help keep the website up-to-date and constantly look for ways to improve it, by collecting information from various sources and presenting it on the web site, join us in the chat for the documentation, the [marketing https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors] and/or the website team. You can support us in various ways: suggest improvements or corrections, write contents about topics that are missing, write news articles and help with ‘marketing’, or join us long-term and help with contents maintenance.

General Rules

  • All content on the website is licensed CC-BY-SA and GPLv2 or later. You will be required to agree to this license when you first edit a page.
  • Don't disrupt existing pages. If you don't know what you want to do yet, then draft the page here on the wiki, Etherpad or in a separate page first.
  • No page is precious to any one person. All pages can be edited by any editor and disputes about drafting changes should be brought to the inkscape-docs mailing list or website editor in chief.
  • The website's content is usually very flexible to updates, but final decisions by the webmaster must be accepted by all editors.
  • Page language in English or translated should keep to the contributors rules. No swearing, no aggressive content and on website pages there should be no opinion.
  • Translations should be strictly a translation of the English versions of pages. If there is new content, it should be added to the English page first to keep all versions of the page in sync.
  • When you have made a change to the English website that changes the contents (i.e. not correcting grammar or a typo), and thus requires translation, please kindly inform website translators via translators' mailing list of the change you made. Try to finalize your changes to a page, before you call out to them to do their work.

User Account

Please register an account using your email address and activate the account. Once active and logged in, please subscribe to the corresponding mailing list and email either the inkscape-docs or the inkscape-translators mailing list to get more information. For translations, please add some more info to your email, and additionally open a request to join the website translators' team (see Translation section below) and start by contributing to the website's .po file for your language.

If you're approved, your account will then be enabled with the right permissions to add and edit any of the pages on the website. Please take care not to disrupt other content as you edit the website. As before, don't hesitate to ask other website editors on their mailing list if you need help.

If anything goes wrong while you are editing — for example, you encounter a bug, or you accidentally delete something you did not intend to delete, or something weird happens, and you don't know why —, please ask for help on one of the mailing lists — either translators, or inkscape-docs. You can also contact your team admin directly or file a bug report for the website at the bug tracker.

Using the Website Editor

Editors and translators can visit the Inkscape website, log in as themselves and edit and add content to the django content management system (cms). This does not require any code access but does require knowledge of html and staff access plus that you be in the Editors or Translators group to give you all the required permissions.

When you want to edit a page for the first time after the update, you will be asked to agree to publish your work under the website's licence. This will ensure that your work can be built upon by others in a safe manner.

REMEMBER: Your changes are NOT published until you press the publish button on the tool bar! Once a change is published, there is NO WAY TO UNDO it, so check carefully before publishing.