Contributing to the Wiki: Locally

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This page shows you how to contribute to any documentation page or wiki based on this template.

Note

This theme is forked from my theme for Nexus Docs; and this page is synced with that.

Tutorial

Note

If you are editing the repository with the theme itself on Windows, it might be a good idea to run git config core.symlinks true first to allow git to create symlinks on clone.

You should learn the basics of git, an easy way is to give GitHub Desktop (Tutorial) a go. It's only 15 minutes 😀.

1. Create a GitHub account.

2. Fork this repository:

   

   This will create a copy of the repository on your own user account, which you will be able to edit.

3. Clone this repository.

   For example, using GitHub Desktop:

4. Make changes inside the docs folder.

   

   Consider using a Markdown Cheat Sheet if you are new to markdown.

   I recommend using a markdown editor such as Typora. Personally I just work from inside Rider.

5. Commit the changes and push to GitHub.

6. Open a Pull Request.

   

   Opening a Pull Request will allow us to review your changes before adding them with the main official page. If everything's good, we'll hit the merge button and add your changes to the official repository.

Website Live Preview

If you are working on the wiki locally, you can generate a live preview the full website. Here's a quick guide of how you could do it from your command prompt (cmd).

1. Install Python 3

   If you have winget installed, or Windows 11, you can do this from the command prompt.

   Windows (winget)Archlinux

   winget install Python.Python.3
   

   pacman -S python-pip # you should already have Python
   

   Otherwise download Python 3 from the official website or package manager.

2. Install Material for MkDocs and Plugins (Python package)

   Windows/OSXLinux

   # Restart your command prompt before running this command.
   pip install mkdocs-material
   pip install mkdocs-redirects
   

   On Linux, there is a chance that python might be a core part of your OS, meaning that you ideally shouldn't touch the system installation.

   Use virtual environments instead.

   python -m venv mkdocs # Create the environment
   source ~/mkdocs/bin/activate # Enter the environment
   
   pip install mkdocs-material
   pip install mkdocs-redirects
   

   Make sure you enter the environment before any time you run mkdocs.

3. Open a command prompt in the folder containing mkdocs.yml. and run the site locally.

   # Move to project folder.
   cd <Replace this with full path to folder containing `mkdocs.yml`>
   mkdocs serve
   

   

   Copy the address to your web browser and enjoy the live preview; any changes you save will be shown instantly.