MozillaZine Knowledge Base:About

The purpose of the MozillaZine Knowledge Base is to help gather support, resources, hints, tips and answers to FAQs (frequently asked questions) for Mozilla products, all in one place. Anyone can contribute, so feel free to help!

However, if you have any comments, problems, or feature requests related to Mozilla Products, please do not post them here! Rather, post them in the MozillaZine Forums.

Using the Knowledge Base

The Knowledge Base is intended to provide factual information about Mozilla products for users and developers. Questions should be asked in the forums, so do not ask them here. You are unlikely to get an answer, and your question will probably be deleted as vandalism. These resources are the result of community effort. If you have had your question answered in the forums, show your appreciation by writing the answer up in the Knowledge Base :-)

Navigate through the Knowledge Base, or use the search facility. Consider creating a user account, as this allows you to change the way pages are displayed. Try a browse through the Category list.

Contributing to the Knowledge Base

Because this Knowledge Base is a wiki, you are free to modify existing articles, and to create brand new ones. Before you begin editing, please take a few minutes to read the rules for contributing.

Editing

• To edit a page, click the "Edit this page" link at the right of the page. If it's your first time, you'll be asked to create an account to log in. (No e-mail address or personal information is required.)
• Try some random editing in the Sandbox. Don't be afraid to make a mess—that's what the Sandbox page is for!
• To learn about various kinds of formatting you can add to your editing (such as headers or links), read this page.

Why so many rules?

If you go to the Knowledge Base Rules page and start clicking the links, you might soon get the impression that you'll have to spend a few hours reading all the various rules and guidelines before you can start contributing to the Knowledge Base. That is not our intention. While it is true that people who become regular contributors gradually absorb the style guidelines and learn how to do things like categorize new articles, we don't expect new contributors to know all the idiosyncratic editorial guidelines and procedures used here. What matters most is that if you have something positive to contribute, then contribute! Go ahead and add your content, and if necessary someone else will come along later to pretty it up.

Need help getting started?

• If you're thinking of adding some information to a Knowledge Base article but aren't sure if it belongs there, feel free to use the article's "Talk" page to insert a comment or ask for feedback. To edit the Talk page of an article you're viewing, click on the "Discussion" link on the right and then on the "Edit this page" link.
• If you're having trouble with editing-related tasks—for example, you can't figure out how to create a new page—feel free to ask for assistance on the Help wanted page.

Keeping up with changes

• The Recent changes page, linked on the right, is an automatically generated list of the most recent edits to the Knowledge Base.
• When you're logged in, clicking on the "Watch" link on a page will add that page to your watchlist. All your watched pages will appear in bold in the Recent changes list.
• Each page also has a "History" link, which you can use to view that page's history of edits.
• The Knowledge Base changes page is used to propose and discuss new ideas for and major changes to the Knowledge Base.

Other information

• Read the original MozillaZine post announcing the creation of the Knowledge Base.
• A guide to all the MediaWiki preferences.