From The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave
We need YOU to help write THE essential guide to Google Wave! In the spirit of Wave, this guide is a collaborative effort. If you're using Wave and have information to add to or clarify in this guide, please do. Your time and expertise will benefit current and future Wavers.
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First Things First: What Every Contributor Needs to Know
By adding content to or comments on this guide, you're giving the editors, Gina and Adam, permission to include your additions on this site and in the upcoming PDF and softcover versions of the book, which will be licensed for reuse. (See the following section for more details on the license.) All contributions are subject to change by the editors. Attribution for guide contents will be to completewaveguide.com, not individual authors. However, at our discretion, we will list standout contributors in the book's credits.
License
The contents of this book are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. This means you are free to share and remix its content, as long as you attribute it to completewaveguide.com and share it under the same license. This also means that any of your contributions to this book will be distributed under this license.
If you do reuse the content of this book in any way, we'd love to hear about it. Ping Gina at ginatrapani@googlewave.com in a wave tagged completewaveguide.com with details. We'll list the best creative uses of it here on-site.
Note: While the contents of this web site are free to share, if you purchase an electronic copy of the book, the PDF file is meant for your exclusive, personal use only. Please help us pay the bills and don't share or distribute the for-sale version of the book.
How to Contribute to This Book
There are two ways to contribute to this book: in Google Wave, or directly on this wiki.
In Google Wave
The easiest way to ask questions or offer feedback or updates to this book is in Google Wave itself. Search for all public waves about this book using a with:public tag:completewaveguide.com search. Add your thoughts to one or more of those waves. Alternately, create a new wave, make it public, and tag it completewaveguide.com to add it to the discussion.
The authors will be looking out only for waves tagged completewaveguide.com, so don't forget the tag!
On-Wiki
The same wiki software that runs Wikipedia, MediaWiki, runs this site, so all its pages are directly editable (with some caveats).
To contribute to this book directly on-wiki, you'll have to create an account and log in. Then, you can add to the discussion tab of any page on-site. You can edit some, but not all, pages directly.
To create a new page on the wiki, log in, then go to: http://completewaveguide.com/guide/Your_Page_Name_Here, where Your_Page_Name_Here is the title of your new page, with _ where there should be spaces.
Important Note: To avoid wiki vandalism, we're protecting the chapter pages from user edits. If a page is protected, you won't be able to edit its contents directly, but if you are logged in, you can add to its discussion page. If a page is protected you won't see the edit tab at the bottom of it. Instead, click the discussion tab to view reader discussion, and click the edit tab there to add your contributions and comments.
Help Translate the Book
We welcome translations to this guide into languages other than English. If you can contribute to a guide translation, the best way to do it is to add new, translated pages on-wiki or edit existing ones. You can also work on translations in Wave itself.
- Translate on-wiki: If you register for an account here at completewaveguide.com, you can create and edit new translated pages which mirror the English versions directly. To make a new page on the wiki, log in, then go to:
http://completewaveguide.com/guide/Your_Page_Name_Here, where Your_Page_Name_Here is the title of your new page, with _ where there should be spaces.
- Translate in-Wave: Alternately, some readers are doing collaborative translations in Wave. Search for
with:public tag:completewaveguide.com tag:translationto see what in-Wave translations are underway and contribute to them.
Contact the Editors
The best way to contribute to this book is via the methods listed above. You can also contact the authors directly on Wave: Gina Trapani is ginatrapani@googlewave.com, and Adam Pash is adam.pash@googlewave.com.
Thanks for Your Time and Contributions
The authors and readers appreciate it.
