Participate

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Contents 1 How to Participate 1.1 Mandatory 1.2 Optional but Encouraged 2 How to Edit this Page

How to Participate

Anyone interested in getting involved in the Well Designed Urls Initiative can participle and hopefully even become a Signatory. Here is how to participate:

Mandatory

• Follow The Rules, of course!
• Create an account on this wiki using your real name (i.e. "Your Name").
  • Link your name to your User Page (i.e. [[User:Your_Name|Your Name]])
• Add your User Page by, after saving this page, clicking the link on "Your Name" to do an initial entry of your User Page.
  • Provide contact information on your User Page (i.e. name(at)domain(dot)com or the URL to your blog contact page)

Optional but Encouraged

• Add a picture of yourself to your User Page using this syntax to include it: [[Image:Your_Name.jpg|frame|right|Your Name]].
• Add your name to the list of Signatories.
• Subscribe to the Well Designed Urls Initiative Mailing List.
  • Participate in the mailing list discussions, as applicable.
• Subscribe your RSS reader to our blog.
• Document Web Applications, Web Frameworks, Web Development Tools, Web Servers, Websites, and Url Rewriters.
• Proactively Propose Principles and debate existing proposals to ensure the Patterns and Best Practices we publish are world class.
• Proactively promote this initiative by mentioning in newsgroups, on email lists, and anywhere else you communicate with people who should know of this initiative (web developers, platform vendors, etc.)
• Update your Signature (email & forums) to include this tagline (w/hyperlink): Well Designed Urls improve the web and I'm helping! (If signatures don't support hyperlinks, just include a link to the signatory page on the line following the tag line.)

How to Edit this Page

• First read The Rules.
• Read How to Participate on this page.
• Propose on the discussion page anything else you think we should add to this page.