Vinismo is written by its readers -- Internet users like you -- and we need your help! Try our getting started guide to learn how.
Absolutely anyone should feel free to plunge forward and share some knowledge on Vinismo. If you're starting to find yourself getting more involved, the following tips and tricks might help you get up to speed working on Vinismo articles and participating in the Vinismo community.
- You are the most important resource Vinismo has. Please feel free to ask questions, make comments, request help, or anything else you need. Your knowledge makes Vinismo a better guide; your comments on our processes makes Vinismo a better project.
- We have a Help section with lots of info on how to work with our software.
- Vinismo has a large and active community of people who want to make this project a success. You may not see us at first, but we're here!
- If you have some particular info you want to share, but are not sure where to put it, just put it anywhere: someone else will move it to the right place.
- Our community policies describe how we work together to make this wine guide.
- Our contributor guidelines gives some ideas about how we like to have articles organized and formatted.
- Articles you work on can and probably will be changed by other people.
- Every article has an associated Talk page where we discuss how best to work on that article. If you're wondering what's up with some article, why it's this way instead of that, check the talk page by clicking the Talk link.
- If you create a new User Account, you can create a personal User Page where you can talk about yourself, places you've been, ideas you have, etc. Also, add yourself to the list of Vinismo contributors by location so that other contributors could ask for your help when describing the region you live in.
- Once you have a User Account, other contributors can send you messages through your personal Talk page. When there are new messages on your Talk page, you'll see a message on any Vinismo page. You should check to see what someone has to say.
- Vinismo is a wine guide, not a personal journal. Try to share what you learned, not what you did. Avoid using first person pronouns like "I" or "we".
- Our goals and non-goals explain what we're trying to do, and what we're not trying to do.
- There are lots of articles on Vinismo that "aren't quite there yet". Don't assume that just because something's left out, misspelled, or weirdly formatted that we want it that way.
- Other people working on Vinismo are here to share their knowledge and make a great website. In dealing with other contributors, assume that people are trying to do what's best for wine lovers and for the project.
- Vinismo is not just an online guide website. We want to make guides that can be used as printed pages for wine lovers who are away from a computer.
- Your contributions should be original work, created by you. Please don't copy text or images from other Web sites to Vinismo, except if they're published under the same licence. Read Vinismo:Copyleft for details.
