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title: Update on the Wiki - More Reasons to Join our Discord
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title: Update on the Wiki - More Reasons to Join our Discord
description: How our wiki project has been going, since we had anounced it in February
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[About 3 months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/le1buv/welcome_to_the_subreddit_and_new_changes/), we came to you with a magnanimous vision of re-organizing our knowledge base.

This community stepped up in a big way, and pushed forward with this mission in mind. Thanks to all those individuals, who jumped in and moved mountains.

In this post, we've some updates on how our wiki has been shaping up, and how we've been doing on our tooling / bots / automation etc.

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In summary:

- We've moved from our older github page hosted static website, [to gitbook](https://indiainvestments.gitbook.io/content/).

   This updated link is already present on the sidebar, and our Reddit wiki.
   
- We've made decent progress in adding in-depth entries with high quality articles.

  Since it's open-source, and free from business interests, we've been able to praise and call-out for-profit businesses where we've found it necessary.

  
- We now have [detailed guidelines](https://indiainvestments.gitbook.io/content/contributors) on how to get started - how anyone can start contributing step-by-step; while also not compromising on other commitments they've to live up to.

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Having a decent wiki with lot of text and articles, is not enough.

Those need to be index-able, and available on-demand.

So that right in the middle of a conversation, one can easily have relevant content inserted as and when applicable.

This brings us to our biggest investment on tooling front till date:

## A Discord Bot to Search the Entire Wiki

Today, we're announcing launch of India Investments bot, that lets one search through our wiki, as and when they want.

[This video](https://youtu.be/aGFfAYaZfy4) should help you see how it works. [Detailed manual for how to use the bot](https://indiainvestments.gitbook.io/content/discord/search-wiki-discord) is also available on our wiki.

You need to join our Discord to be able to use this bot.

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## Tech Update Details

_This section is only for you, if you understand technical jargons, and interested in bot development_

This bot is hosted on [Deno Deploy](https://deno.com/deploy), a new beta platform that lets you run cloud functions on a custom Deno run time.

Bot uses [Discord's new slash command features](https://blog.discord.com/slash-commands-are-here-8db0a385d9e6), which was published only 2 months ago.

It delegates Discord API calls to [GitBook's beta search API](https://developer.gitbook.com/), built on top of Algolia.

Let's just say, working with three pieces of bleeding edge technologies, were not easy. Missing documentation, unpredictable behavior, lot of hit-and-trial - we've all been there.

I'm damn proud of our team, to work through the problems, and finally making it functional for 5000+ members on our Discord.

Shout-out to Deno team, Discord dev relations team, and GitBook team as well; for helping us out whenever we've reached out to them.

[Source code of bot is available on our github, under MIT license](https://github.com/indiainvestments/slash_commands).

We spend zero in hosting costs as of now, and we intend to keep it that way as long as feasible.

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## What's next?

- On the wiki front, we'd continue to make more progress as we add cards in our [Trello Board](https://trello.com/b/NPlSa3C7/journey-board).

  This bot is only as powerful as the underlying content from our wiki. This means adding more quality content, as required, would improve both the bot and the wiki.
  
- On the tooling & automation front, we've some exciting ideas!

  Now that we've a team with hands-on experience in building and managing bots, we want to _run before we have to walk_.

  Our first task would be to _commoditize computation_, and integrate lot of _calculators_ (SIP, Lumpsum, Goal Planning, Backtesting etc.) directly into our Discord.

  [Sample user stories](https://hackmd.io/@indiainvestments/rJphfMWDu) for a decent SIP Calculator.

  Ideally, we would also want to take up building web-based widgets to complement each such calculator, and our tech-stack choices allow high code re-use, which reduces effort we'd have to put.

## How Can You Help?

[Just reach out](https://discord.gg/hqBNg4u). Decisions are made by those who show up.

You would never know what you're truly capable of, until you choose to step up.



