# Beeminder Wiki: A Humble Beginning
**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326
**Category:** uncategorized
**Created:** [October 5, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326 "2020-10-05T12:40:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/1 "2020-10-05T12:40:10Z")
A while back I suggested a Beeminder wiki, but I’m afraid we got kind of bogged down in the details and failed to come to a consensus. So I’ve decided to move forward with a simple GitHub Pages site. It should be simple enough to migrate the content somewhere else later. But the longer we put it off, the longer we don’t have a place to document all the amazing things people build around Beeminder.
Also, it’s [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) so contributions could earn you a nice t-shirt. 😉
- [The wiki](https://www.nathanarthur.com/beeminder-wiki/)
- [Previous discussion](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki/5778/13)
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### Author:  [@brennanbrown](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/brennanbrown)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/2 "2020-10-05T17:47:07Z")
Great idea! What do you think of adding the [Beeminder Integrations Megalist](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-integrations-megalist/5091) forum topic as a starting point?
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/3 "2020-10-05T18:34:24Z")
Great idea! Would want to check with @matti before we copy it in. Maybe until he weighs in we can just link to it?
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### Author:  [@brettyance](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/brettyance)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/4 "2020-10-05T19:27:56Z")
Right now, it’s just a readme.md file that’s echoed on your domain. Are you expecting it to stay on one file? With as many things Beeminder is capable of, I imagine that one page could get rather lengthy. Of course, with the use of in-page hyperlinks and drop-downs, it might be fine, but is there a strong argument for keeping it this way? I was expecting the readme file to have instructions on contributing or at least what to expect in the repository.
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/5 "2020-10-05T19:45:48Z")
Yes, good points! Notes on how to contribute would be a great addition!
GitHub Pages allows the site to be split into multiple pages. Create a new `.md` file and then link to it this way:
```auto
[Link Text](my-file.md)
```
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### Author:  [@brennanbrown](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/brennanbrown)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/6 "2020-10-07T00:31:58Z")
Huzzah! Now, what comes next?
_Taken from the [original thread](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/interested-in-a-beeminder-wiki/180) written by @dsernst five years ago:_
- **Beeminder Use Cases**. Deeper coverage around common use cases like fitness, productivity, diet, business goals.
- Popular goals like mustdo, weight, language learning (duolingo, anki), TagTime, writing, bites of food.
- Explanations about some of the best [“featured” goals](https://www.beeminder.com/featured). Each use-case could get its own dedicated page, exploring different approaches about what to track.
- A Beeminder **Getting Started Guide**.
- **Manual pages for individual features**. How the feature works. Link to blog posts announcing it. Recording the feature’s history?
- Shared place for Akratics Anonymous to **compile strategies** such as dealing with Beeminder Burnout
- **Common support questions** and their go-to answers.
I wonder what you had in mind, @narthur? I’d be more than happy to start drafting sections for any parts of the above, or any other ideas you might have, but I don’t wanna be overbearing or anything.
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/7 "2020-10-07T11:18:29Z")
All of the above! Please feel free to go wild. 😄
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### Author:  [@brettyance](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/brettyance)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/8 "2020-10-08T01:39:01Z")
Surely there’s a statute of limitations for @matti to say “no” to his list? Although I’m sure he’s unlikely to be upset if we did copy it (while giving credit, of course).
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### Author:  [@zzq](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zzq)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/9 "2020-10-08T09:40:40Z")
> [@narthur](#):
>
> Also, it’s [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) so contributions could earn you a nice t-shirt. 😉
If you want PRs to this repo to count as Hacktoberfest contributions, you need to tag the repo with the `hacktoberfest` topic. (See [Hacktoberfest 2023](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/#rules.)) This is a [recent change](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update) to the way Hacktoberfest works (this year)—it’s now only for repos that opt-in.
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/10 "2020-10-08T11:39:42Z")
Good point. I believe I’ve already done that?
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### Author:  [@zzq](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zzq)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/11 "2020-10-08T11:44:11Z")
Indeed, I see it:
I don’t _think_ it was there when I looked before, but maybe it was and I missed it, in which case never mind.
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/12 "2020-11-02T17:04:46Z")
I just created a Beeminder goal to ensure I keep contributing to the wiki:
[https://www.beeminder.com/narthur/bm-wiki](https://www.beeminder.com/narthur/bm-wiki)
One commit at a time! 😃
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/13 "2020-11-04T22:02:29Z")
@dreev Where would this project need to be before you were comfortable putting this on [wiki.beeminder.com](http://wiki.beeminder.com)? (I guess that’s assuming such a point exists… Does it?)
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### Author:  [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/14 "2020-11-04T23:23:01Z")
Definitely. In fact, we could add that CNAME or whatever right now if you prefer it there than under [https://www.nathanarthur.com/](https://www.nathanarthur.com/) (cc @adamwolf who can do the subdomain magic whenever you say the word).
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/15 "2020-11-19T13:42:34Z")
@dreev @adamwolf Ok, I’ve added the [CNAME](https://github.com/narthur/beeminder-wiki/blob/master/CNAME)! Let me know if there’s anything else I need to do.
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### Author:  [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/16 "2020-11-20T02:00:50Z")
Done!
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/17 "2020-11-20T13:13:42Z")
Wohoo! [https://wiki.beeminder.com/](https://wiki.beeminder.com/) 😄
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### Author:  [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-wiki-a-humble-beginning/7326/18 "2020-11-22T14:14:43Z")
I’ve started featuring contribution goals on [the wiki home page](https://wiki.beeminder.com/). Anyone interested in creating a personal contribution goal so I can feature it? 😃