Make the explanations clearer
Pick a page, improve one part of its explanation, and a maintainer reviews it. Every approved change helps the next reader.
Step 1: Create your free DARC account
Anyone can propose a better explanation once signed in. Go to Sign in and choose Continue with Google, Continue with GitHub or Email me a link, whichever you see. There's no password to remember.
You get a public handle (like @ada). Your handle, name and profile picture are public; your email address never is.
Step 2: Choose a page you understand well, or just learned
Open any entry or problem from Research or Open problems. Pages marked AI-reviewed were drafted by AI and need a person's eye the most.
An analogy that clicked for you, or a clearer Picture, often helps more than more words.
Step 3: Open the editor
Below the explanation, click Improve this explanation (or Write a plain-language explanation on a page that has none yet). The editor shows the current text of each part.
Step 4: Improve one part at a time
The parts: One-line summary (at most 20 words), Student explanation (250 to 500 words at first-year university level), Picture (the idea as 3 to 6 short boxes, one per line), Glossary (term | plain meaning | link) and Reading list (title | url | why read it).
Change one part, say what you changed under Why this change, and press the button under it, such as Propose new student explanation. You'll also see a Plain explanation box; pages don't show that part at the moment, so spend your effort on the others.
Tip Short sentences, one idea each. Define every word a newcomer wouldn't know, or put it in the Glossary.
Step 5: Wait for review
A maintainer who didn't write your change reviews it. Until then it's listed under Waiting for review in the editor; once decided, under Your reviewed edits. Approved changes show up in Live changes.
DARC doesn't notify you about reviews yet, so check back on the editor page. If one is rejected and you're not sure why, ask on the page's Discussion.
Step 6: Get an AI assistant to help you
An AI assistant is a chat app you can ask questions in plain words. Use it as an editor, not an author: ask it where your draft is unclear or what a beginner would misread. Write the final text in your own words and check every fact against the page's sources.
Both have free plans; sign up with an email address.
AI can be confidently wrong. Check what it says against the page's sources, and never post AI output on DARC as if you had checked it yourself.
This page's address saves your answers, so you can bookmark it or send it to someone.