How to help our community

Welcome to our wiki community! You'd like to ask a question? Want to share your knowledge? Do you have wishes or suggestions? This page will help you to get to know what you can do and how you can do it.

There are many options if you don't want to log in such as editing articles, and interacting on the discussion site. However, if you'd like to register, you'll be able to interact in several ways, earn badges and become a valued member of the Starship Wiki crew!

After making an initial edit, blog post, or discussion post, you can request an invitation link from Funitel to join our Discord server. Our Discord server serves as the primary platform for discussing and coordinating work.

## Interact

Talk about your favourite launches, speculate about SpaceX's future plans, write wishes or suggestions for this wiki and ask questions! If you are logged in, there are several ways to interact with other space nerds:

First of all, use the discussion site (Explore -> Discuss). Add new topics, comment, like and share!

Add information to your user profile!

Use the message wall of an admin (currently Funitel) to pose questions, write suggestions and express wishes. Also feel free to write blog posts!

If you have questions or suggestions relating to specific articles, either use the comment section at the bottom of each article or the talk page of the article concerned by clicking on the three dots on the top right corner and selecting "Talk" in the drop-down menu. Please be aware that the comment section is not regularly checked by admins, while the talk pages are.

1. Use the discussion page of an article, if you want to change the article significantly. This is only necessary with articles that either have a long history (a), have many contributors (b), are blocked (c), or when a change has consequences for other pages (d).
2. Use the discussion page of an article if you are uncertain about something.
3. Use the discussion page of an article to make suggestions.
4. Use the comment section for expressing your thoughts about the topic.

## How to contribute

First of all, just be an active member of our community! You can help in several ways, every contribution is hugely appreciated. Most importantly, you don't need to be registered in order to contribute, however, if you do add a profile, you will be able to use more tools and interact more easily.

### Correct articles

Correcting articles is very important to improve quality of our wiki. It doesn't depend whether you do this sporadically or systematically. There are two ways to correct articles:

Grammar and spelling: As contributors might not speak English as their first language, many articles will contain many mistakes in grammer and spelling. Help correcting them!

Information: It is vital to the quality of our articles that they contain correct informations. While on this wiki, speculation is very welcome, it is important that facts and speculations are declared as such.

### Extend and update articles

Many articles are stubs. You can help to increase their quality by extending them. Provide information you think could be useful in the respective context and add links to other topics and articles.

As this wiki covers ongoing activities, many articles need to be updated on a daily basis in order to stay relevant. So if you find a timeline that doesn't include all information, just go to the general timeline and copy that information!

### Write new articles

Currently, there are over 160 articles on this wiki. You can help to extend this wiki by creating new articles.

## Current to-do's

The current to-do's can be found #to-do on the discord server however there are some constant things that need doing:

### Priority 1:

* Update:
	+ Daily update of general timeline
	+ Daily update of Elon Musk Tweets
	+ Daily/weekly update of all timelines on this wiki, using the general timeline

### Priority 2:

* Correct:
	+ Correct spelling and grammar on all articles
* Extend:
	+ Include information from May 2019 to January 2021, not covered yet on this wiki
	+ Write articles about more technical aspects such as metrics, specs, engines...

### Priority 3:

* Extend:
	+ Look at categories and add articles that are missing

## Guidelines

### Writing

1. Indicate your source of information at least once in the article. Cite sources adequately.
2. Don't simply copy information from other wikis such as Wikipedia or LabPadre Wiki. Use other sources for your articles.
3. NEVER delete outdated information. If something isn't update anymore, move this information into a "History" section.
4. Timelines: All information in article timelines are retrieved from the general timeline. So do not directly update the article timelines using external sources, but use external sources to update the general timeline. In a second step, use the general timeline to update single article timelines.
5. Write using a simple language. People around the world should be able to understand it.

### Pictures

1. Only upload pictures that aren't copyrighted or that are considered as fair use.
2. If you want to upload copyrighted material, please ask permission from the owner first.
3. If you upload own material, please be aware that according to Fandom terms "all contributions to the Starship SpaceX Wiki are considered to be released under the CC-BY-SA".
4. If you upload a picture, always edit the License page, add the template "imagesummary" and fill in the information necessary (author, date, source,...)