Merge pull request #629 from RichardLitt/feat/edit-docs

Edit entry documentation

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ Users signed in with GitHub can edit and add pages using a [browser](https://hel
 Wikipedia has [five pillars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars) which provide a good standard for contributing that we can adapt for our needs. If you have experience with editing on Wikipedia, then that will help with knowing how to edit this wiki, although the contribution rules are less strict. Referencing facts is a key writing and proofreading task, as well as checking that information is up-to-date (and updating it if otherwise), correcting grammar, typos, and spelling; and making the wiki comprehensive and easy to understand. Other rules, such as a neutral point of view and no original research are desirable, but may be hard to maintain. Notability is less relevant, this wiki is about all things Ethereum.
 
 ### Translating
-The title of the page should start with [Language]: title, e.g. "[German] White Paper" or "[中文] 以太坊Wiki目录". Then add a Table of Contents (ToC) page linking for the language, linking to all pages of that language, and add a link to it in the [footer](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/_Footer/_edit). 
+The title of the page should start with [Language]: title, e.g. "[German] White Paper" or "[中文] 以太坊Wiki目录". Then add a Table of Contents (ToC) page linking for the language, linking to all pages of that language, and add a link to it in the [footer](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/_Footer/_edit).
 
 ### License and [contributor license agreement](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/CC0-license#list-of-contributors)
 
-Please permit your contributions to be under the [CC0 license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode) [1](https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/),  which makes your contributions have no rights reserved, putting them in the public domain. This will help to allow for the dissemination of information about Ethereum, the Ethereum ecosystem and Web 3 to the public, in a completely permissive manner. To state that you accept your contributions to be under a CC0 license, please add yourself to the list of external contributors [here](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/CC0-license#list-of-contributors). Otherwise, without adding yourself to the list, your contributions will be all rights reserved. Some previous contributions may have all rights reserved (by contributors that have not agreed to a CC0 license [at pull request 528](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/pull/528)), since no copyright permission was stated explicitly. Until all previous contributors agree to a CC0 license, and to provide clarity of licensing, you may also wish to add a HTML comment to the top of pages or sections that you contribute to, like so: `<!--*Name Surname*, Github username, **email@domain** and/or other contact methods-->`. 
+Please permit your contributions to be under the [CC0 license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode) [1](https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/), which makes your contributions have no rights reserved, putting them in the public domain. This will help to allow for the dissemination of information about Ethereum, the Ethereum ecosystem and Web 3 to the public, in a completely permissive manner. To state that you accept your contributions to be under a CC0 license, please add yourself to the list of external contributors [here](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/CC0-license#list-of-contributors). Otherwise, without adding yourself to the list, your contributions will be all rights reserved. Some previous contributions may have all rights reserved (by contributors that have not agreed to a CC0 license [at pull request 528](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/pull/528)), since no copyright permission was stated explicitly. Until all previous contributors agree to a CC0 license, and to provide clarity of licensing, you may also wish to add a HTML comment to the top of pages or sections that you contribute to, like so: `<!--*Name Surname*, Github username, **email@domain** and/or other contact methods-->`.
 
 For more information, see https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki.
+
+## Closed Issues
+
+If you had an issue that has been closed, and feel that it could be reopened after following the above steps, feel free to request to reopen it. About 180 issues and 30 PRs were closed on May 29 2018, due to deleting the codebase and referring people to this wiki, in order to reduce the burden on maintenance by following the above steps. This fits well with Ethereum's ethos of decentralization, which includes minimising bureaucracies, and gives contributors more time to build Ethereum and satisfy the long-term interests of current and future users. If you had an issue or PR that was closed without explanation, I apologize, but it is time-consuming to reply to every one.

ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-If you have a technical issue with a specific client, application or tool, e.g. those listed [here](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Clients,-tools,-dapp-browsers,-wallets-and-other-projects), please ask in the Gitter room of that project, and if your issue is still not resolved, post an issue in the repo for that project. Please only create an issue if you can't fix it by editing yourself, it doesn't get resolved via the [Gitter documentation room](https://gitter.im/ethereum/documentation) (including pinging someone who knows how to handle the issue, or asking/finding out who knows then pinging them) and only if it is related to the wiki. 
+Hello! Chances are you're in the wrong place.
 
-If you had an issue that has been closed, and feel that it could be reopened after following the above steps, feel free to request to reopen it. About 180 issues and 30 PRs were closed on May 29 2018, due to deleting the codebase and referring people to this wiki, in order to reduce the burden on maintenance by following the above steps. This fits well with Ethereum's ethos of decentralization, which includes minimising bureaucracies, and gives contributors more time to build Ethereum and satisfy the long-term interests of current and future users. If you had an issue or PR that was closed without explanation, I apologize, but it is time-consuming to reply to every one; I'm hoping that people will see the updated readme and this section.
+If you have a technical issue with a specific client, application or tool, e.g. those listed [here](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Clients,-tools,-dapp-browsers,-wallets-and-other-projects), please ask in the Gitter room of that project, and if your issue is still not resolved, post an issue in the repo for that project. This repository is only used for the wiki, and issues here are only relevant if they are directly about the wiki.
 
-While having good documentation is certainly important to help onboard new people including users and contributors of all kinds, there is a lot to do at the moment in terms of design and implementation, and editing documentation is something that seems best to be done when you are reading or learning about something, using something, building upon something, etc., not usually just for the sake of reading and editing for other users, although reviewing one's own writing is certainly a good practice.
+Please only create an issue here if:
+- You've spotted something in the wiki that you can't fix it by editing it yourself
+- Your problem hasn't been resolved on the [Gitter documentation room](https://gitter.im/ethereum/documentation). You've tried pinging someone who knows how to handle the issue, or asking who this might be, and then asking them.
+- You've waited at least a couple of days for responses on Gitter.
+- And **only** if it is related to the wiki.
+
+Thank you. If your issue was previously closed, see the [Contributing Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information on closed issues.

PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

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-Do not make a pull request; chances are that all PRs will be ignored, since any content in the codebase can be in this [wiki](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki) instead.
+**Please do not open a pull request.**
+
+This repository no longer contains any code or documentation; please edit the [wiki](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki) directly, instead.
+
+If you're having issues editing the wiki, you could try reading the introduction to GitHub wikis,  [here](https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-wikis/).

README.md

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-Please use [wiki/wiki](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki), since that is freely maintainable.
+# Wiki
+
+All of the content in this repository lives in the  [Wiki](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki).
+
+[![Screenshot](screenshot.png)](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki)
+
+There is no longer any code or documentation stored in this repository.