在任何重大规模上为MDN文档作出贡献的主要部分是知道如何作为MDN社区的一部分工作。本文提供的技巧可帮助您充分利用与其他作者和开发团队的互动。
以下是在Mozilla社区工作时的一些通用指导原则。
与他人沟通时要时刻保持委婉和恭敬。
如果您在联系某人的目的是要求他们采取不同的做法，或者指出他们所犯的错误（特别是他们反复犯错的话），请以正面评论开始您的信息。这可以减轻打击，这可以说，它表明你试图帮助，而不是让你成为坏人。 例如，如果一个新的贡献者创建了大量没有标签的页面，并且您想要指出这个问题，那么您给他们的消息可能看起来像这样（您需要为每个个案更改的内容加下划线):
嗨，MrBigglesworth，我一直注意到你对Wormhole API文档的贡献，并且能够得到你的帮助真是太棒了！我特别喜欢你通过可读性平衡细节水平的方式。尽管如此，如果您在页面中添加正确的标签，您可以使这些文章更好，更有用。
详细信息，请参阅MDN标记指南 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Contribute/Howto/Tag) 。
在您参与MDN项目时，了解发生了什么以及与我们社区的其他成员进行互动很有用。通过与我们社区中的其他人交谈，您可以获得并分享想法，状态更新等。我们还拥有工具和信息资源，可以帮助您了解由谁来完成的工作。
您可以通过多种方式与社区成员（开发人员或作者）进行交流，每种方式都有自己特定的礼仪规则。
在编写文档以涵盖由于Bugzilla中的错误而实施的更改时，您经常会与涉及这些错误的人员进行交互。请务必始终牢记Bugzilla礼仪指南！
有时候，如果你有他们的电子邮件地址，你和一个或多个其他人之间的私人电子邮件交换就是要走的路。
注意：一般来说，如果有人在您要记录的技术文档上发布了他们的电子邮件地址，已经亲自给您发送了他们的电子邮件地址，或者通常有一个众所周知的电子邮件地址，则电子邮件是可接受的“第一次联系人”做法。如果你需要挖掘它，你可能应该首先尝试获得IRC或邮件列表的许可，除非你已经用尽了所有其他尝试取得联系的努力。
We have several useful tools that provide information about the status of documentation content.
Possibly the most important relationships to develop and maintain, as a member of the MDN writing community, are those you develop and sustain with the developers. They create the software we're developing, but they're also the most useful source of information we have. It's crucial that we maintain good relations with developers—the more they like you, the more likely they are to answer your questions quickly, accurately, and thoroughly!
In addition, you represent the MDN writing community. Please help ensure we keep our excellent working relationship with the dev team by making every interaction they have with the writing team be a good one.
On a related note, a great way to find the right person to talk to is to look at the module owners lists.
The writing community is a large one. While the number of extremely frequent, or large-scale contributors is relatively small, there are many dozens or hundreds of people who contribute at least now and then. Fortunately, these are by and large awesome people with a genuine love of the Web, Mozilla, and/or documentation, and interacting with them is almost always pretty easy.
See the article Join the community for more information about the MDN community.
The most frequent place you'll directly interact with other writers is in the {{IRCLink("mdn")}} channel on IRC. This channel is specifically reserved for discussing documentation. For IRC-specific etiquette tips, see the Mozilla Support article "Getting Started with IRC." You'll also have discussions with us on the MDN discussion forum. In general, IRC tends to be used for quick, more in-person-like discussions, while the discussion forum is typically used for longer-duration conversation.
By keeping in mind the {{anch("General etiquette guidelines")}}, you'll find that usually things go very smoothly.