# How to contribute to the documentation?

**URL:** <https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/how-to-contribute-to-the-documentation/1773>\
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**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 6:00am UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/how-to-contribute-to-the-documentation/1773 "2019-10-23T06:00:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![StanczakDominik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fenicsproject.discourse.group/stanczakdominik/32/580_2.png) [@StanczakDominik](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/u/StanczakDominik)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 6:00am UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/how-to-contribute-to-the-documentation/1773/1 "2019-10-23T06:00:42Z")

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Hi! I’ve been trying to pick up FEniCS by going through the tutorials.

However, going through [https://fenicsproject.org/pub/tutorial/sphinx1/.\_ftut1003.html#the-complete-program](https://fenicsproject.org/pub/tutorial/sphinx1/._ftut1003.html#the-complete-program), I ran into an error at the last line - the `interactive()` call. I looked around, it turned out to be deprecated, which sounds like a reasonable decision. All right! But I figured I could probably make this easier for the next person figuring FEniCS out and remove that line, possibly replacing it with a Matplotlib plot.

The documentation seems like it’s in a pretty disjointed state, though:

- [https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/docs](https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/docs) seems like it mostly describes the API side of things, without the tutorials
- fenics-project/fenics-book/ hasn’t been updated since 2013 (and just the README, at that), which is fine since the printed book isn’t going to update itself;
- The fenics-project/fenics-web/ repository raises my hopes but turns out to be deprecated and the site is now maintained via Wordpress!

My question, thus, is: is there currently any way to contribute to the public-facing documentation?

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**Author:** ![siriusf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fenicsproject.discourse.group/siriusf/32/546_2.png) [@siriusf](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/u/siriusf)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/how-to-contribute-to-the-documentation/1773/2 "2019-10-29T21:21:01Z")

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Hi Dominik, I am also in a situation similar to you. Maybe you want to comment in my post:

[The FEniCS Book and non-automatically generated documentation for the 2019 version of FEniCS?](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/the-fenics-book-and-non-automatically-generated-documentation-for-the-2019-version-of-fenics/1806/2)

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**Author:** ![kamensky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kamensky](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/u/kamensky)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/how-to-contribute-to-the-documentation/1773/3 "2019-10-29T21:28:32Z")

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You might try asking about this on the [Slack channel](https://fenicsproject.slack.com/); that’s where most of the discussion about potential project contributions occurs. (E.g., some of the recent discussion there is on translating documentation into Spanish.)