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Bug 547910 - Typos in "Contribute to Gentoo" page
Summary: Typos in "Contribute to Gentoo" page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Websites
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Gentoo Website (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Website Team
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Keywords:
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Reported: 2015-04-27 15:13 UTC by Hector Escobedo
Modified: 2015-04-27 18:15 UTC (History)
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Description Hector Escobedo 2015-04-27 15:13:41 UTC
At the following URL:
https://gentoo.org/get-involved/contribute/

1. The "Sponsor Infrastructure" and "Provide a Mirror" sections say "access to machines, bandwith" and "appreciate further bandwith", respectively, where they should say "bandwidth".

2. The "Donate" section, below the previous one, says "you can contribtue to Gentoo" where it should say "contribute".

3. The "Contribute Articles and Stories" section says "The Gentoo Monthly News always look" where it should say "looks".

Other than that, there are a few other stylistic and/or grammatical issues with this page that are not obviously wrong but could definitely be improved.

1. In the "Provide a Mirror" section, it should probably say "Users in Africa, Asia, and Oceania would especially appreciate more bandwidth in their respective regions," instead of the current wording.

2. This page contains several prose lists ("documented, improved, translated or rewritten", "ebuilds, program sources, stage archives, and boot media", etc.) but they do not use the serial comma consistently. Whether you prefer the serial comma or not, we should at least be consistent within one page.

I'm not trying to be pedantic or make someone look bad, I'm just trying to improve the experience for new users and visitors and make the website look more professional. I don't know who wrote this page, but it's possible that English is not their first language, and I would completely understand that. If I could fix this myself without filing a bug report, I would.

As a new Gentoo user myself, I would like to contribute to the project and help the website maintainers directly; send me an email if any of you are interested. Thank you for your attention to this bug.
Comment 1 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2015-04-27 18:15:12 UTC
(In reply to Hector Escobedo from comment #0)
> At the following URL:
> https://gentoo.org/get-involved/contribute/
>
> [lots of fixes]

committed, thanks.

> 
> I'm not trying to be pedantic or make someone look bad, I'm just trying to
> improve the experience for new users and visitors and make the website look
> more professional. I don't know who wrote this page, but it's possible that
> English is not their first language, and I would completely understand that.

Are you saying native speakers don't make mistakes? =)

> If I could fix this myself without filing a bug report, I would.
>
> As a new Gentoo user myself, I would like to contribute to the project and
> help the website maintainers directly; send me an email if any of you are
> interested. Thank you for your attention to this bug.

You can get the sources from https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/www.git/
For starters, I'd be glad to receive patches and/or discuss ideas via www@gentoo.org, #gentoo-www, or even bugzilla if you prefer.