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This is the WIKI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) section of the Kat (http://kat.sourceforge.net) site.

The Kat community exhorts users to be bold in updating articles. Wikis develop faster when people fix problems, correct grammar, add facts, make sure the language is precise, and so on. It's okay. It's what everyone expects.

How many times have you read something and thought, "I could have written that better. Why aren't these pages copyedited?" Kat Wiki not only allows but wants you to add, revise and edit the articles yourself. It does require some amount of politeness, but it works. You'll see.

If someone writes an inferior article or outright patent nonsense, don't worry about his/her feelings. Correct it, add to it, and, if it's a total waste of time, replace it with brilliant prose. That's the nature of a Wiki.

For the most part, the instinctive desire of an author to "own" what he or she has written is counterproductive here, and it is good to shake up that emotional attachment by making sweeping changes at will when it improves the result. And, of course, others here will boldly and mercilessly edit what you write.

Don't take it personally. They, like all of us, just want to make Kat Wiki as good as it can possibly be.

If you don't know how to format a Wiki document, please read How to edit a page in the Help section.

Thanks

Roberto Cappuccio and the Kat team