Editing rules

What would we be without rules?

some editing rules/hints

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If you have created a page that you know is not completed, add a horizontal rule (with ---- at the beginning of a line) at the end, and put TODO: <TASK TO DO> lines below that. A Category TODO can bring all the TODO-pages together.
Maybe it's a good idea if people can contact the author of a page they want contribute to - which is possible if everybody has contact data on their user page (no it's not arule that you should, but often it might help make the result better.
You can make Your text more readable by using the <code> </code> tag for, say, filenames or shellcommands. The result will look something like this /path/to/my/file/here or this:

# apt-get remove --purge login

TODO: maybe we should have a naming scheme for some special page types, like pages describeing user-contributed classes, success stories, and stuff