FAQ
Ask a question or suggest a feature. The community votes on what matters most.
How to contribute
Progresspedia is a community wiki for learning new skills. More topics are coming. Every article is open to improvement by anyone with an account. Here's how it works:
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Create an account
Sign up with an email. It takes a second.
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Find an article you can improve
Browse the courses, pick one you know something about, and open an article that looks incomplete or wrong.
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Suggest a change
Open a course's Improve this course section and pick one of three ways to help: Edit an article to fix a mistake or clarify a step (the easiest place to start), Add a new article to cover something that's missing, or Restructure chapters to reorder the course. Nothing you submit goes live straight away.
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The community votes
Your suggestion goes into a review queue. Once it earns 5 yes votes from other users, it's sent to a moderator who reviews it and publishes it. If it gathers 5 no votes first, it's set aside. Either way, you're notified of the outcome.
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Earn points
Accepted edits to an existing article are worth 5 points, and a new article you write is worth 50 points. Every upvote on your edits and comments is worth 1 point. Downvotes cost you one. Your total shows up on your profile.
You can also suggest new courses from the Courses page. If enough people upvote your suggestion, it'll be next in line to be built.
Common questions
- What is Progresspedia?
- A free, community-edited learning platform. Browse a course, follow the step-by-step articles, and mark each one complete as you go.
- Is Progresspedia really free?
- Yes. No paywalls, no ads, no premium tier. Every course is free to read forever, and anyone with an account can contribute.
- Who writes the courses?
- Anyone with an account. Progresspedia is wiki-style: you can fix an article, add a new one, or restructure a course. Each suggestion goes to a community vote, and once enough people upvote it, a moderator reviews and publishes it.
- What courses are available right now?
- Calisthenics, snowboarding, and wakeboarding so far, with more on the way. You can also suggest a new course from the Courses page - popular suggestions get built next.
- Do I need an account to read?
- No. Reading is open to everyone. You only need an account to mark articles complete, vote, comment, or suggest edits.
- How does the edit voting work?
- Submit a suggestion and it goes into a community review queue. Once it earns 5 yes votes from other users, it's sent to a moderator who reviews it and publishes it. If it gathers 5 no votes first, it's set aside. Either way you're notified of the outcome.
Questions & feature requests
Post something you're wondering about, or an idea for the site. Others can upvote what they want to see answered.
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