# Community submitted wiki/guides section

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/community-submitted-wiki-guides-section/27328
**Category:** Meta
**Tags:** discourse
**Created:** 2025-05-06T14:01:40Z
**Posts:** 31
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## Post 1 by @jonah — 2025-05-06T14:01:41Z

Hi everyone,

I want to discuss the possibility of adding a **community-submitted guides section** here on the forum, where people could submit well written guides (e.g. how-to) about anything privacy-related.

**Writing new guides would be restricted to [trust level 2](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/badges/2/citizen) forum users.**

The benefit for us (Privacy Guides) is that this category could be used as a **staging area** before new articles are added to the website. It would be an easier way for the community to collaborate on guides before a PR is submitted, and comment on that guide and ask questions about it here directly instead of on multiple platforms.

**For example** , this would be the perfect place for the community to work on the long-awaited Windows guide collaboratively.

It would also be a good place for guides about niche or advanced topics that might not have a great place (yet?) on the website.

For example, guides about _self-hosting_ various tools could be a good fit here.

**Guides would be [wiki posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-and-creating-wiki-posts/30801), meaning that they could be updated by other forum members** (with a public edit history), so they **aren’t** reliant on a single person to keep them updated in the long term.

A second benefit for us would be that people stop sharing links to Pull Request previews, which can appear as if they are written by Privacy Guides and approved by the community when they in fact aren’t. We have warning banners on PR previews already, but this new format would make it more clear that the community-submitted guides are written by individual members and not necessarily pre-approved or reviewed by anyone.

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For an example of what this would actually _look like_, see: [https://meta.discourse.org/c/community-wiki/sysadmins/180](https://meta.discourse.org/c/community-wiki/sysadmins/180)

The biggest benefit of this layout for members is that any guides submitted here won’t be lost in the onslaught of other posts because we can keep a well-organized index in the sidebar.

 ![2025-05-06 at 08.53.30](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/c/cc07da7c4a12a06cb2f0c478559a30984a228de3.jpeg)

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