contribution: add guide how to participate in the documentation

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diff --git a/docs/contributing/documentation.rst b/docs/contributing/documentation.rst
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+.. _build:
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+As most software projects we also have a lack in documentation. We encourage
+every VyOS user to help us improve our documentation. This will not only be
+benefical four you (when reading something up) but also for the whole world.
+
+If you are willing to contribute to our documentation this is the definate
+guid how to do so.
+
+Guide
+-----
+
+Updates to our documentation should be delivered by a GitHub pull-request. In
+order to create a pull-request you need to fork our documentation code first.
+This requires you already have a GitHub account.
+
+1. Fork the project on GitHub https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation/fork
+2. Clone your fork to your local machine
+    ```shell
+    $ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vyos-documentation
+    ```
+3. Change to your new local directory vyos-documentation
+4. Create a new branch for your work. You can use a name that describes what
+   you do
+    ```shell
+   $ git checkout -b fix-vxlan-typo
+    ```
+5. Make all your changes - please keep out commit rules in mind. This mainly
+   applies to a proper commit message describing your change. Please check the
+   documentation if you aren't familiar with
+   [sphinx-doc](http://http://www.sphinx-doc.org) or
+   [reStructuredText](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/index.html)
+
+   Note the following RFCs, which describe the reserved public IP addresses and
+   autonomous system numbers for the documentation: RFC5737_, RFC3849_,
+   RFC5389_ and RFC7042_:
+
+   * 192.0.2.0/24
+   * 198.51.100.0/24
+   * 203.0.113.0/24
+   * 2001:db8::/32
+   * 16bit ASN: 64496 - 64511
+   * 32bit ASN: 65536 - 65551
+   * Unicast MAC Addresses: 00-53-00 to 00-53-FF
+   * Multicast MAC-Addresses: 90-10-00 to 90-10-FF
+
+   Please don't use other public address space.
+
+6. Check your changes by locally building the documentation
+	```shell
+	$ cd docs; make html
+	```
+    Sphinx will build the html files in the ``docs/_build`` folder
+
+7. Add modified files to Git index
+    ```shell
+    $ git add path/to/filname
+    ```
+    or add all unstaged files
+    ```shell
+    $ git add .
+    ````
+
+8. Commit your changes
+    ```shell
+    $ git commit -m "rename vxlan set syntax"
+    ```
+
+9. Push your commits to your GitHub project:
+    ```shell
+    $ git push -u origin fix-vxlan-typo
+    ```
+
+10. Submit pull-request.
+    In GitHub visit the main repository and you should see a banner suggesting
+    to make a pull request. Fill out the form and describe what you do.
+
+11. Once pull resquests have been approved, you may want to locally update your
+    forked repository too. First you'll have to add the remote upstream
+    repository.
+
+	```shell
+	$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git
+	```
+
+    Check your configured remote repositories.
+	```shell
+	$ git remote -v
+	origin    https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vyos-documentation.git (fetch)
+	origin    https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/vyos.documentation.git (push)
+	upstream  https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git (fetch)
+	upstream  https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation.git (push)
+	```
+
+    Your remote repo on Github is called Origin, while the original repo you
+    have forked is called Upstream.
+
+    Now you can locally update your forked repo.
+	```shell
+	$ git fetch upstream
+	$ git checkout master
+	$ git merge upstream/master
+	```
+
+    If you want to update your fork on GitHub, too use the following:
+
+	```shell
+	$ git push origin master
+	```
+
+.. _RFC5737: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737
+.. _RFC3849: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3849
+.. _RFC5389: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5398
+.. _RFC7042: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7042
+
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 81c1dd3a..9d27a504 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ Contributing
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   contributing/build-vyos
    contributing/issues_features
    contributing/development
    contributing/vyos_cli
    contributing/coding_guidelines
    contributing/upstream-packages
-   contributing/build-vyos
-
+   contribution/documentation
 
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