The Polkadot Wiki is the central source of truth for Polkadot. It is a community-focused initiative led by the Web3 Foundation to keep an up-to-date resource on the best information for building on Polkadot, learning about Polkadot, or maintaining a node on Polkadot.
The Wiki is a community-focused initiative and we will review all pull-requests and issues created in this repository. If you notice typos or grammatical errors, please feel free to directly create pull requests with these corrections. Larger contributions may start as issues to test the waters on the subject with the maintainers. It is generally preferable to create a pull request over an issue to propose a change to the wiki content.
Both the Polkadot Wiki and the Kusama Guide are built from the source files in this repository.
After cloning the source locally, you can start the websites with each of these respective commands
(ensure you run yarn
at the root of the repository first to install dependencies):
# For the Polkadot Wiki:
yarn polkadot:start
# For the Kusama Guide:
yarn kusama:start
Use the style guide from the Substrate Knowledge Base
Use Prettier to format markdown pages. To run Prettier on the docs
folder,
run:
npx prettier --write ./docs/
The wiki is automatically deployed to GitHub Pages via the CircleCI job on each new commit to the master branch. The Kusama guide is also deployed to GitHub Pages (via a separate repository). Both websites are also uploaded to IPFS via GitHub actions.
This documentation sometimes makes references to on-chain values that may change over time. For
example, it might reference the current number of validators. A custom script exists to populate
these values post-build. To avoid conflicts in source files, the replacement is done on built
files, not the MD files. The value placeholders are defined in
scripts/inject-dict.json. The placeholders should be included in text
surrounded by double curly braces, like so: {{ num_validators }}
.
To use the replace script:
# For Polkadot Wiki
yarn polkadot:inject
# For Kusama Guide
yarn kusama:inject
This will read the dictionary and do the replacements for the respective website.
It is recommended to use the dry run option when adding new values and templates in, to make sure
they resolve to values first and don't throw query errors. To use dry run (no replace, just output
of templates and their resolved potential replacements), use the --dry
or -d
flag:
yarn polkadot:inject --dry
The script defaults to the websocket URL wss://kusama-rpc.polkadot.io/
. To change to another URL
or to connect to a local node, use the --node/-n
flag:
yarn polkadot:inject -n ws://localhost:9944
Note: make sure you're running an archive node if you're querying into the past!
See other available options by using the help
command.
yarn polkadot:inject help
The templates to replace in the text take the following format:
{
"tpl": "tip_deposit_amount",
"default": { "kusama": 0.166, "polkadot": 1 },
"path": "consts.treasury.tipReportDepositBase",
"filters": ["humanReadableToken"]
},
tpl
is the template you want replaced in the text, it should be placed between{{ }}
curly braces.default
is either a literal value or an object with chain-specific defaults.path
is the query to run on the chaincomputed
is a value that should be set totrue
is the value does not need apath
. Computed properties are exported fromcomputed.js
.filters
is an array of filters to apply on the value after it's been fetched (does not apply to defaults). Filters are defined inapplyFilters
orinject.js
.
To test the injection, run polkadot:build
and kusama:build
, then polkadot:inject
and
kusama:inject
. Inspect the built files in the corresponding build
folder under website
or
kusama-guide
.
The two wikis support conditional rendering depending on which wiki is being deployed. This is useful for mirrored pages that have most content in common, but some minor differences. To use this functionality, surround Kusama specific content with {{ kusama: :kusama }}, and polkadot specific content with {{ polkadot: :polkadot }}. Example:
If the treasury ends a budget period without spending all of its funds, it suffers a burn of a
percentage of its funds -- thereby causing deflationary pressure.
{{ polkadot: This percentage is currently at 1%
on Polkadot. :polkadot }} {{ kusama: This percentage is currently 0.2% on Kusama, with the amount currently going to
[Society](https://guide.kusama.network/docs/en/maintain-guides-society-kusama) rather than being
burned. :kusama }}
To test the resolution, run polkadot:build
and kusama:build
, then polkadot:inject
and
kusama:inject
. Inspect the built files in the corresponding build
folder under website
or
kusama-guide
.
A limitation of Docusaurus is that pages can only be included in one sidebar at any given time. Thus, our Kusama section will either hijack some content it shares with the rest of the wiki, or lack that content.
To solve this, the repo mirrors some pages and includes them in additional sidebars. The scripts
folder contains a mirror.js
script that creates a copy of the pages to duplicate across sidebars.
The new pages are prefixed with mirror
, and first need to be declared in mirror.js
and added to
the relevant sidebar section. To run the script:
yarn mirror
Note: This command runs automatically when using
polkadot:start
orkusama:start
development scripts, so you don't need to worry about running it manually if you start the development site with one of these commands.
We are using Crowdin to manage all different translations. You can go to the
project page and select the language you would like to
translate to start.
All translated content through Crowdin will regularly submit a pull request to this repository.
If you do not see the language you would like to translate, please let us know via Riot.
The Polkadot Wiki is licensed under the GPL-3.0 free software license.