How to Publish Wild-Caught Articles
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DigitalOcean curates community-written technical tutorials, publishing hundreds into a knowledge base of 1,300 tutorials. Submission vetting uses concrete tests: require an SSH key as shibboleth, screen for domain expertise and structure, then editors test and run the commands. Workflow often takes 90+ day average turnaround from first contact to publish. Contributors receive payment (typically $200 standard payout; $100 short piece, $50 update). Repeat authors speed major updates, as with Ubuntu 16.04.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to wild articles
- 1:20Defining the process
- 3:43Why recruit contributors
- 6:06Author motivations
- 8:04Sourcing potential authors
- 10:28Evaluating submissions
- 13:08Topic selection and editing
- 17:03Publishing and rewarding
- 18:48Leveraging repeat authors
- 20:16Adapting the model
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