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This repository also contains guidance to help you contribute to our technical documentation. For a list of the articles in the contributors' guide, see the index.
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- Code of conduct
- Use GitHub, Git, and this repository
- How to use markdown to format your topic
- Index of all contributors' guide articles (opens new page)
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.
For information about how to contribute, how to use the GitHub UI to contribute small changes, and how to fork and clone the repository for more significant contributions, see Install and set up tools for authoring in GitHub.
If you install GitBash and choose to work locally, the steps for creating a new local working branch, making changes, and submitting the changes back to the main branch are listed in Git commands for creating a new article or updating an existing article
We recommend that you create local working branches that target a specific scope of change. Each branch should be limited to a single concept/article both to streamline work flow and reduce the possibility of merge conflicts. The following efforts are of the appropriate scope for a new branch:
- A new article (and associated images)
- Spelling and grammar edits on an article.
- Applying a single formatting change across a large set of articles (e.g. new copyright footer).
All the articles in this repository use GitHub flavored markdown. Here's a list of resources.
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For our list of markdown editors, see the tools and setup topic.
Article metadata enables certain functionalities on the technet.microsoft.com web site, such as author attribution, contributor attribution, breadcrumbs, article descriptions, and SEO optimizations as well as reporting Microsoft uses to evaluate the performance of the content. So, the metadata is important! Here's the guidance for making sure your metadata is done right.
See the index of our contributor's guide for all our guidance topics.