# Contributing to the Homelab Wiki

## Voice

Concise, technical, sysadmin-to-sysadmin. No marketing prose, no exclamation marks.

## Page templates

### Container page (`containers/<id>-<name>.md`)

```markdown
# <id> — `<name>`

One-sentence purpose.

## At a glance
- **Hostname:** `<name>`
- **IP:** `192.168.8.x`
- **Privilege:** privileged | unprivileged
- **Resources:** N cores / M GiB RAM / D GiB rootfs
- **Mounts:** `/mnt/library` ↔ `/mnt/library` (if any)
- **Public hostname:** `<sub>.hubris.network` (if proxied)

## Role
What it does, what it talks to.

## Service / port map
| Service | Listen | Notes |

## Storage / config paths

## Auto-deploy
(if any) — link to [auto-deploy](../infrastructure/auto-deploy.md)

## Related
- [Caddy](121-caddy.md) (if proxied)
- [DNS](../infrastructure/dns.md) (if has subdomain)
- [Authentik](124-authentik.md) (if SSO)
- ...

## Changelog
### YYYY-MM-DD — short title
What changed, why, link to investigation if any.
```

### Cross-cutting page (`infrastructure/<topic>.md`)

```markdown
# <Topic>

One-sentence summary.

## Why
Design rationale — what it replaces, what it solves.

## Components
Where it runs, what files matter.

## How to apply / use
Recipes.

## Gotchas

## Related
Links to nodes that host or depend on this.

## Changelog
```

### Investigation (`investigations/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md`)

```markdown
# YYYY-MM-DD — <title>

## Summary
1-3 sentences.

## Timeline

## Root cause

## Mitigations applied

## Open questions
```

## Linking discipline

- Every container page links to every cross-cutting page it participates in.
- Every cross-cutting page lists the nodes that participate.
- Every investigation links to the nodes it implicates *and* gets back-linked from each node's changelog.

## Changelog hygiene

- Reverse-chronological (newest first).
- One entry per discrete change, even if you make several in one day.
- If a change spans nodes, repeat the entry on each affected page (different perspective is fine).
- Don't rewrite history — entries are append-only. Mistakes get a follow-up entry that supersedes them.