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Clarify where the Make a contribution button leads in CONTRIBUTING.md
The button links to the article's source file on GitHub, not an editor. Explain the pencil-and-fork step and link to the article on editing files in another user's repository. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AugnFjhMJiq9sxScLYogcu Co-authored-by: nicholas.dean <nicholas.dean@outset.ai>
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#### Repository-specific options:
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**Make changes in the UI:** Click **Make a contribution** at the bottom of any docs page for small changes like typos or broken links.
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**Make changes in the UI:** For small changes like typos or broken links, click **Make a contribution** at the bottom of any docs page. The button opens the article's source file in this repository. Click the pencil icon to edit the file. GitHub asks you to fork the repository, then lets you propose your change as a pull request. See "[Editing files in another user's repository](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-files/editing-files#editing-files-in-another-users-repository)."
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<img src="/contributing/images/contribution_cta.png" />
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