How to Contribute

Writing Episodes and Ramblecasts
To get started, you will need to choose what pages to add. Visit the planning sheet here to see what episodes have not been claimed yet. Decide on a block of episodes to claim and claim them as your own on the sheet. This is to help us avoid people working on duplicates, but it's best if you can ensure you'll get to them in a timely manner.

As you are working and adding pages, you will need to update the sheet to show that different episodes have been written.

To write an episode, copy and paste the format from the Episode Template, and to write a Ramblecast, copy and paste the format from the Ramblecast Template.

After you create the page for the Episode or Ramblecast, you will need to update all other linking pages. This includes: If you run into a page that it needs to be linked to that does not exist yet, you will need to add that to the planning sheet. Go to the tab titled "Other Pages and Links to to Added" and list the connection that needs to be made. Be sure to list your name as the identifier so that if people have questions, they can ask you. This way, there's a record of the fact that the episode needs to be linked to a new page, so that it makes it easier for the people who write the new pages to go back and link it, and you don't have to worry about suddenly being responsible for more than just the episode pages.
 * adding it to the Index of All Pages
 * adding it to the Aarne-Thompsun-Uther Classification Page
 * adding it to the locations page
 * adding it to the authors/collectors page
 * adding it to any other relevant pages, such as Boatwatch or Church of the Knife

Writing Book of Doug and Topic Pages
The best way to go about writing a Book of Doug page is to go to the planning sheet and click on the "Other Pages and Links to be Added" tab. There, you will see a list of all of the pages that have been identified as needing to be created. Claim one and begin working on it! You will need to update the sheet in the same way as if you were writing episodes so that we can keep track of what is done and being worked on.

After you write the page, update all other links, including: In general, it makes sense to create these pages as we need them, so at the beginning there won't be as many pages to link to, but as time goes on there will be more and more.
 * adding it to the Index of All Pages
 * adding it to the Episode/Ramblecast that Identified it
 * doing a cursory search for other pages containing that phrase to see if you need to link it anywhere else