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Asking for your participationOne of the main critisized points of the old file repository was often the quality of the module descriptions. There might have been many reasons for this like
lazy submitter, lazy staff member, english not being the native language of the submitter and many more.
I believe the community should have enough members to let us create quality descriptions for the modules. In some cases these might even prove usefull for module/theme authors.
I ask
you to pick one or more modules and create a description to help improve the quality for the new repository. And don´t worry about the version today and the one that might end up in the repository when it opens because usually there will be no drastic changes but in most cases only features are added and the general description should still be valid.
This is how it works:The most important parts are the short description and main description. If you lack any of the following details it does not matter at all and should not stop you from creating a description. They can still be added and as this is a community effort so is completing and possibly updating the description.
There is a thread called "List of modules" in this forum right
here It contains a list of modules to pick from. If you have one in mind thats not listed there just do that one. Post a note into that thread though so it will be added to the list.
To start a new description:- if you start a description for one of these modules/themes please use the template below and open a new thread labeled
"Module: description" or accordingly
"Theme: description"- post a link to your created description thread in the thread
List of modules and i will add it into the list and later delete that post to keep the list thread itself short
To make suggestions/corrections for an existing description- just reply in the existing thread for the module/theme and the threadstarter or a member of the repository team will add/edit it accordingly
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Some hints about the description:Please remember the goal of the description is to inform the user what the module does and which value if offers for him. Its not about gloryfying a module like
"This is the worlds best module to do this. If offers an amazing and nearly unbelieveable amount of features which will knock you out of your socks once you installed it"
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