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How Can I Start Contributing?
A step-by-step guide on how to contribute to the India Investments Wiki
If you're reading this, we can't thank you enough 😃
It's our pleasure to have someone as interested as you going through this. It's ok, it might seem overwhelming at first, but everyone has something to offer.
This section is for contributors who plan on taking part, in creating and maintaining our wiki & FAQ content. You can write content, review content created by others, or check for spelling or grammatical errors. No contribution is small. Every drop matters, that go on to form oceans.
If you wish to work on technical side of things (Discord / GitHub automation and other cool stuff), then this document is probably not for you.
Yes yes, you're thinking well, duh, if I'm here I know who you are!, but we do need to address the elephant in the room and set clear ground-rules.
We're a bunch of anonymous internet surfers who decided it's time retail investors have access to decent guide on all things investing. That's all.
Why anonymous? Because we (well, some of us) value our privacy, and don't have any plans of creating a cult of persona around ourselves.
We aren't registered with any regulatory body, like SEBI, or even AMFI. We don't represent any financial institution. In fact, you should assume, unless explicitly stated otherwise, none of us have any formal financial background.
If these all seem vague details, keep in mind that our hands aren't tied by business interests. This project is being built as a non-profit open-source project, because we feel that most for-profit businesses would intentionally omit information that could be important for making financial decisions.
Banks and insurance companies haven't exactly done a great job at educating the retailers in this process, and that's quite an understatement. Studies show that Indian households have collectively lost $28 billion (archive.org link | archive.is link) simply by falling victim to financial mis-selling.
Think of this project as a way to bridge this information asymmetry.
There might be other documentations and guides out there for some financial guidance; but to the best of our knowledge, nothing exists with such lofty goals!

This is how a Beginner label looks on our Trello board.
Alternatively, find a column that has
Lift off
in its name. It's all the content that's been undergoing review right now.
Lift-off column
If you've decided on how to contribute - reviewing existing content, or adding new content; head over to next section.
A card represents a unit of task. One of our core-team members would be tagged on that card, with display name / profile pic visible on it. This is the contact person for that card or the underlying task. If the card doesn't have any owner yet, no worries!

The kb-discussions channel is the one you need!
Someone there will guide you on what's required to complete that task, what has already been done etc. Once you've full context of all relevant work that has been done, or needs to be done, you'd be in a better position to contribute.
If you plan on writing content, you can use any of the following tools for composing content: