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The Documentation Project is an effort to maintain and improve the quality of the documentation included with the Apache HTTP Server. Participation is open to anyone with a little time, a little knowledge of HTML, and hopefully a little knowledge about the Apache HTTP Server. No programming knowledge is required, so this is a great way for non-programmers to contribute to the success of Apache, and to have their work read by millions of Apache users.

This is not a mailing list where users should ask questions on how to configure Apache. The Users List is available for that purpose.

There are several ways that you can contribute to the documentation effort. You can:

• Subscribe to the docs@httpd.apache.org mailing list and tell us something that could be improved.
• Join #httpd on irc.freenode.net and tell us there.
• Submit a ticket to the bug database.
• Check out the documentation from svn, and send us a patch.

There are lots of ways to contribute to the documentation project, including fixing typos and spelling mistakes, translating the documentation into other languages, writing tutorials to help new users, or just expressing your opinion about suggested changes.

For information on our use of XML in the documentation, see our Documentation Format and Transformation page.

If you need inspiration for something to work on, look at our STATUS file for a list of things that we think need doing, and pick something that you think you can do. Patches against trunk are greatly appreciated, but contributions in any format are helpful.

Information about translating the documentation into other languages is available at the translations page.

Some of the participants are:

• Erik Abele
• Ryan Bloom
• Rich Bowen
• Vincent Bray
• Ken Coar
• Eric Cholet
• Tony Finch
• Yoshiki Hayashi
• Astrid Keßler
• Jason Lingohr
• André L. Malo
• Chris Pepper
• Dan Poirier
• Noirin Plunkett
• William A. Rowe, Jr.
• Joshua Slive
• Tony Stevenson
• Mads Toftum

The localized custom error messages in the 2.x version of the Apache HTTP Server were contributed by

• Ricardo Leite (Brazilian)
• Marcel Kolaja (Czech)
• Peter Van Biesen (Dutch)
• Lars Eilebrecht (English and German)
• Cecile de Crecy (French)
• Luigi Rosa (Italian)
• Noirin Plunkett (Irish)
• Jaeho Shin (Korean)
• Tomasz Kepczynski (Polish)
• Andrei Besleaga (Romanian)
• Nikola Smolenski (Serbian)
• Karla Quintero (Spanish)
• Thomas Sjögren (Swedish)
• Emre Sokullu (Turkish)