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To find information use the search box on the top right corner of the screen, or categorically browse the wiki using the Documentation topic links provided below.
Both official Gentoo project documentation as well as community-contributed content can be found here. The vast majority of documentation is publicly editable. Official documents have a Handbook: or Project: prefix (only developers can edit them). Community members can leave comments/feedback for these pages via their respective Discussion pages.
Find something to add or edit? The Getting started section (below) gives contributors a few pointers on how to start editing articles.
Most importantly, the Gentoo Handbook is among the best documents found on the wiki:
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Due to usability issues the visual editor has been temporarily disabled. See bug #910279 for more details.
January 1, 2025: Happy New Year!
Thanks for making 2024 great, and here's to an even greater New Year! 2025 should be a 'big' year for the wiki!
During Q1 2025, we have plans to update the software stack which supports the wiki. Before and during the update, we'll do our best to provide any additional details if and as they are needed by adding context details to infra-status.g.o. As with any infrastructure update, expect a lack of availability during the update window and possibly even after if things go awry. We'll at least be locking the wiki into a read-only state; but we plan also for the wiki to be offline for a certain amount of time during the update. Post successful update, we plan to do better at implementing scheduled maintenance routinely within planned windows which will hopefully enable a shorter down time between updates.
To all in our amazing community, thank YOU for making the Gentoo wiki the best FOSS wiki on the web!
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Wiki development details
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- 171 active official projects
- 98 active users on the wiki
Getting started
Anyone is welcome to edit or create pages on this wiki.
Gentoo wiki contributors encourage beginners to consult the Help page before making edits. It also links to the MediaWiki User's Guide which contains information on how to use wiki software.
If there is something we can improve please let us know on the Feedback page.
For questions related to using or editing the documentation on the wiki, please join us in our #gentoo-wiki (webchat) IRC channel on Libera.chat or email us at wiki@gentoo.org.
Please note: For general Gentoo support, such as getting advice on a particular Handbook section or other generic support questions, please get in touch with our support community instead. General support is not provided by the wiki project.
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