How to contribute with Content Step by Step

Instructions to update content on the PCMDI Website

Here is the description of step by step how to contribute with content for the PCMDI website. If you are having trouble or if you wish to only provide the text content directly to the developers. Please contact me:pawpepe or any other developer member.

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1. Go to https://github.com/PCMDI/pcmdi.github.io and on the top right corner click on "Fork"

(that will give you a copy of the whole project where you can edit it without interfering with the original project)

2. Go to your fork

( when you create it, github takes you directly to it), but the shortcut (path) to it will be listed with all your other repositories ( go to your profile and on the top left of your picture click on the repositories tab)

where your fork would be:

3. On your fork go to the file you want to edit:

* if the page you want to edit is :

http://pcmdi.github.io/about.html the "about.md" file will be at main page of your fork:

4. Click on the file

5. On the right side a little bit above where the file content starts, click on the "pen" button to edit the file:

6. Make the changes of the content you wish - The file is most likely to be ".HTML" format, but could also be ".md"

7. Once you are done changing the content , go to the bottom of the page and press "commit changes"

( it is recommended to add some description on the boxes above the "commit" button, but is not mandatory)

8. After committing on the top of the page ( where you edit the document) press "create pull request".

9. As a "base fork" chose the original project "PCMDI/pcmdi.github.io" and as a "head fork" chose your own, then click to create the "pull request button again"

10. Someone that has rights to merge your changes with the original project will review your changes and it will be finally merged and the content will be updated on the website.