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###Finding things to Edit

###Clean up the title People think in forums, so they title their actual question with a "topic" instead of their actual question.

###Linking prexisting stuff (It would be crazy to list them all, just searching for highly voted questions in that tag does the trick, you get the idea) – by the time you have the rep to edit questions you probably know a bunch of these.

###Formatting – In addition to the normal spelling and grammar

###Tagging

###Deduplication

###Cross-linking with other documentation

###Deleting

###Flagging

Finding things to Edit

Clean up the title

People think in forums, so they title their actual question with a "topic" instead of their actual question.

Linking prexisting stuff

(It would be crazy to list them all, just searching for highly voted questions in that tag does the trick, you get the idea) – by the time you have the rep to edit questions you probably know a bunch of these.

Formatting – In addition to the normal spelling and grammar

Tagging

Deduplication

Cross-linking with other documentation

Deleting

Flagging

askubuntu.com/review has a bunch of great ways to find things to fix.

• Low quality posts
• Search for "edit", this will bring up a bunch of answers where people forget the wiki aspect and just add EDIT all over the place.
• Keep an eye out for new Tumbleweeds, see if they need editing help.
• The three badges for traffic (based on views) are the most visible questions from search engines, we should try to make these "best of the best":
  • Famous
  • Notable
  • Popular
• This thread on meta.SO has links to searches you can do to find common junk that can be fixed.
• Troublesome tags

• "Problem with Compiz", "A question about Unity", "What's wrong with Firefox?"
• You'll usually find the real question right at the bottom.
• People tend to put the version and "Ubuntu" in the title. We have tags and the site is about Ubuntu, so you can change "How do I install Chrome in Ubuntu 10.10" to "How do I install Chrome?". You probably don't need a version tag either, those are useful for hardware style questions but it's best if we keep questions without version tags so we can maintain them over time. You can also replace generic questions with specific titles, for example "Ubuntu doesn't suspend" to "Thinkpad X220 doesn't suspend". Here's a list of questions with Ubuntu in the title.
• If we had Ubuntu and version numbers in every title the front page would be unreadable. However I don't just drop it every time, I try to think of what the question would sound like if I asked someone in real life or "what would I google for?"
• Think long term – Assume every question you edit will be the #1 result for that question in Google, make it count!
• Here's some questions with "question" in the title, easy pickings!

• Any question asking about hardware – I have a hardware detection problem, what logs do I need to look into?
• gconf-editor – How do I use the gconf editor?
• PPA – What are PPAs and how do I use them?

• Replacing "sudo apt-get install unity-2d" with a link to How do I install and switch to the Unity 2D desktop?
• You can do searches for popular commands and then just go back and edit them to point to the canonical question and answer.

askubuntu.com/review has a bunch of great ways to find things to fix.

• Low quality posts
• Search for "edit", this will bring up a bunch of answers where people forget the wiki aspect and just add EDIT all over the place.
• Keep an eye out for new Tumbleweeds, see if they need editing help.
• The three badges for traffic (based on views) are the most visible questions from search engines, we should try to make these "best of the best":
  • Famous
  • Notable
  • Popular
• This thread on meta.SO has links to searches you can do to find common junk that can be fixed.
• Troublesome tags

• "Problem with Compiz", "A question about Unity", "What's wrong with Firefox?"
• You'll usually find the real question right at the bottom.
• People tend to put the version and "Ubuntu" in the title. We have tags and the site is about Ubuntu, so you can change "How do I install Chrome in Ubuntu 10.10" to "How do I install Chrome?". You probably don't need a version tag either, those are useful for hardware style questions but it's best if we keep questions without version tags so we can maintain them over time. You can also replace generic questions with specific titles, for example "Ubuntu doesn't suspend" to "Thinkpad X220 doesn't suspend". Here's a list of questions with Ubuntu in the title.
• If we had Ubuntu and version numbers in every title the front page would be unreadable. However I don't just drop it every time, I try to think of what the question would sound like if I asked someone in real life or "what would I google for?"
• Think long term – Assume every question you edit will be the #1 result for that question in Google, make it count!
• Here's some questions with "question" in the title, easy pickings!

• Any question asking about hardware – I have a hardware detection problem, what logs do I need to look into?
• gconf-editor – How do I use the gconf editor?
• PPA – What are PPAs and how do I use them?

• Replacing "sudo apt-get install unity-2d" with a link to How do I install and switch to the Unity 2D desktop?
• You can do searches for popular commands and then just go back and edit them to point to the canonical question and answer.

• Low quality posts
• Search for "edit", this will bring up a bunch of answers where people forget the wiki aspect and just add EDIT all over the place.
• Keep an eye out for new Tumbleweeds, see if they need editing help.
• The three badges for traffic (based on views) are the most visible questions from search engines, we should try to make these "best of the best":
  • Famous
  • Notable
  • Popular
• This thread on meta.SO has links to searches you can do to find common junk that can be fixed.
• Troublesome tags

• Low quality posts
• Search for "edit", this will bring up a bunch of answers where people forget the wiki aspect and just add EDIT all over the place.
• Keep an eye out for new Tumbleweeds, see if they need editing help.
• The three badges for traffic (based on views) are the most visible questions from search engines, we should try to make these "best of the best":
  • Famous
  • Notable
  • Popular
• This thread on meta.SO has links to searches you can do to find common junk that can be fixed.
• Troublesome tags