:sparkles: Welcome to the OAWiki Repository! :telescope:

Welcome to the source for the OAWiki - https://wiki.observational.space ! If you are interested in contributing an article, thank you! The next two sections are just for you :)

Contributing - Authoring

The wiki pages are written in markdown. You might be familiar with it - **bold** and # heading and [link text](url) (for more, check out here). You can write markdown text anywhere; if you would like a suggestion that isn't here on GitHub, try https://hackmd.io

Some considerations as you write:

• acceptable content: keep it professional.
• proper attribution: many astrophotography images take tens or even a hundred hours to create. Proper attribution and permission is very important.
• license notice: the wiki (and thus any content you contribute) is under CC-BY-SA-4.0 which is common for educational material (and very similar to that of Wikipedia).

Contributing - Adding your Contribution

The Fast Way

The easiest way is to send your article or contribution in the discord, and ask a wiki maintainer to integrate it. This is recommended for first time contributors.

The DIY Way

You can also do that integration process yourself. At this GitHub, you'll open a pull request with your change, which will be approved by a maintainer and automatically made live on the site. You'll need to make an account on GitHub for this. Specifically, the process goes:

• on the wiki page you wish to change, on the right sidebar, click Edit on GitHub
• make your changes (tip: just above the top left of the editor area, there's a edit / preview switch. Remember this isn't a perfect preview but it's sometimes helpful)
• near the top right is a big green Commit changes... to click when you're satisfied
• The Commit message is important; extended description etc is not. The commit message is what will be shown when folks look through a page's history, so replace the default and just breifly describe what was changed, and put your name in parentheses afterward. You don't need to say the file / page name here.
  • example: "wrote base article" or "added section for jabberwalk tips" or "fixed inaccuracy about Vorpal Blades"
• Click the big green buttons it guides you through - fork the repo, create a branch
• now near the upper left corner of the page, click the Pull requests tab, and hopefully there's a yellow box saying there is recent activity and suggesting you Compare & pull request - do that, then click the next big green button Create pull request
• Your part is now done! Wiki maintainers will take a gander and approve it, and then it becomes live on the website! Thank you!

Building the Wiki Locally (optional)

For the nerds, here's how!

Setup

The site is built from markdown using sphinx. To build the site, you'll first need to install python via your favorite method. Then install the python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Inside src/ you'll find a Makefile which helps orchestrate the build. Simply type

make html

to build the site; the output will be written to src/_build/html/. Using your browser, open src/_build/html/index.html to view the site.

Pre-commit hooks

pre-commit is a python tool which allows for formatting and linting tools to be run automatically when a git commit is called. Here, we use it to automatically

• Remove whitespace at the end of lines
• Put a newline at the end of every file, if there isn't one there already
• Check that yaml, json, and python files are valid
• Check that we don't accidentally add huge files to the repo
• Sort entries in requirements.txt
• Replace mixed line endings (\r\n -> \n)
• Format pretty much all the files in the repo
• Perform static analysis on python types
• Sort python imports
• Lint javascript code

To enable these hooks, make sure the dependencies are installed:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then install the hooks:

pre-commit install

Now, any time you do git commit, these checks will be automatically run. If pre-commit modifies your code, it will tell you that it automatically modified your code. If you git add those modified files and then call git commit again, the checks will run again. Once all the checks are passing, you'll be able to commit as normal.

If you temporarily want to disable the pre-commit hooks, you can do git commit -n to disable the hooks for just that commit.