You can contribute to the Asheville LocalWiki project in all kinds of ways, depending on your interests, skills and time. In addition to the ideas of different ways you can contribute, please hop on over to the LocalWiki help page, where you'll find great tutorials and video's about how to use all the features of LocalWiki.

Ways to Add

Here are some ways to add information to Asheville LocalWiki:

Simple Little Edits

  • Correct a misspelled word.  

  • Re-write awkward or unclear wording so that it's smooth and clear.

  • Rewrite  biased or promotional wording so that it is neutral and factual.

  • Fix a dot or a line on a map, even if it's off by only a half a block.

Simple Little Pages

Create a little page (or a big one!) about a topic you know and like.

Pages About People

  • Add a fact to the Timeline section of a person's Asheville LocalWiki page. Did you hear or read something in the news about a person? Adding an item to their timeline is a great way to update our LocalWiki's information about that person.

  • Add a Timeline section to a person's Asheville LocalWiki page. If a person's page doesn't have a Timeline section, make one. Include some dated items. That will allow the page to be updated easily.

  • Add a date of birth to a person's Asheville LocalWiki page.

  • Add links from a person's Asheville LocalWiki page to other pages in Asheville LocalWiki. Add links that will help readers find answers to obvious questions they might have as they read a person's Asheville LocalWiki page. 

  • Add links from a person's Asheville LocalWiki page to pages outside of Asheville LocalWiki. Add links that will help readers verify that the information on the person's Asheville LocalWiki page is accurate.

  • Create an Asheville LocalWiki page for a person who doesn't already have a page!

Pages About Places

  • Add a fact to the Timeline section of place's Asheville LocalWiki page. Did you hear or read something in the news about a place in Ann Arbor? Adding an item to that place's timeline is a great way to update Asheville LocalWiki's information about that place.

  • Add a Timeline section to a place's page. If a person's page doesn't have a Timeline section, make one. Include some dated items. That will allow the place's Asheville LocalWiki page to be updated easily when something happens.

  • Add links from a place's Asheville LocalWiki page to other pages in Asheville LocalWiki. Add links  that will help readers verify that the information on the person's Asheville LocalWiki page is accurate

  • Add links from a place's Asheville LocalWiki page to pages outside of Asheville LocalWiki. Add links  that will help readers verify that the information on the place's Asheville LocalWiki page is accurate.

  • Add a map to a place's page.

  • Create an Asheville LocalWiki page for a place in Asheville or Buncombe County that doesn't already have a page!

  • Add history of places (like the "What Was There" page)

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