KnowIslam:Contribute
KnowIslam aims to provide accurate and accessible information from traditional and critical perspectives on the beliefs, practices, and development of Islam.
One of KnowIslam's highest priorities is to develop a more active editor community and to encourage more people to edit the site while keeping in line with guidelines and quality standards. If you have any suggestions for how this can be achieved or are interested in becoming a regular editor, please contact site administrators, and we will gladly provide you with an account.
Ways To Help
Help can come in various forms, including:
- New ideas: We need ideas in the following two areas:
- How to attract more editors, increase editing activity and create an active vibrant community.
- Bold and creative ideas on how to improve this site. KnowIslam has developed certain ways of doing things but is always open to suggestions, improvements and changes.
- Content-writing: Help KnowIslam complete existing tasks which either involve writing new articles, or improving existing ones.
- Data scanning and collection: There exist large collections of Hadiths and Islamic scholarly works which need to be scanned and read so they can be added to the wiki's Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars collection.
- Copy-editing: This involves improving wiki formatting, grammar, layout, merging or splitting topics and linking other relevant articles.
- Marketing: If you own a blog or website, linking to us or creating a blog post to let your readers know is a quick and easy way to help. If you frequent forums then you could add our URL to your signature. If you see a place on the Internet where you think this site should be linked, you could contact the owner and ask if they would link to us.
- Research: Writing new articles can involve serious amounts of time reading and researching, and assistants with this would help KnowIslam to grow faster and be more accurate.
- Donations: Donations will be used for hosting and domain fees. See the donation section for details.
Content Writing
In the case of content writing, you are a good candidate for being an editor if:
- you are passionate about Islam and want to help Muslim apologetics.
- you are familiar with Islamic scriptures, tradition, and history.
- you pay attention to detail.
- you are good at researching information through search engines and other information sources and are aware of some of the primary Islamic reference texts.
- you can identify invalid claims within the context of Islam (e.g. claims of 72 virgins and 666 is holy).
You will spend your time reading, gathering and verifying facts about Islam and writing them into the website. See this page for details on some projects: KnowIslam:Tasks.
Explore the Site
- KnowIslam:Site Map (navigate the entire site from one page)
- Recent Changes (this shows the most recent edits on the site)
- New Articles List (the most recent main space articles)
- Active Users (an automatically generated list of users who acted in the last 30 days; If you want to look at who is doing what, this is a good place to start at - you can click on the contribs link for each user to see their edits)
- Discussions (discussions between editors; there is a separate page for Visitor inquiries)
- Statistics (some system-generated statistics for the site)
Donations
KnowIslam is currently managed by Bismika Allahuma, who accepts donations here.
Further Reading
- KnowIslam:Message to New Users (if you have been directed to this page by a site administrator, this is not optional, but a requirement)
- KnowIslam:Required Reading for Editors (read the "Initial Reading" section to familiarize yourself with the kind of site we are)
Contact Information
If you have any comments, questions or concerns for us, or if you are interested in joining the KnowIslam team, contact us here and you will gladly be provided an account.