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title: User contributions
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

User contributions allow you to create a content editing interface for site members. It means that selected website visitors can create, edit and delete content, even if they are not editors and cannot access the administration interface or the [On-site editing mode](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/managing-website-content/working-with-documents-and-pages/editing-documents-and-pages.md).

There are several scenarios where you can use User contributions, for example:

- **Community news** – You can create a list of news and allow community members to add news. [View example setup](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/user-contributions/example-publishing-community-news.md)
- **Partner directory** –Your business partners can add reference projects to their profile on your website.
- **Intranet knowledge base** – Your employees can add knowledge base articles to your intranet portal.

## Implementation

Use the following web parts to implement user contributions:

- **Contribution list** - this web part allows you to display a list of documents and a _New document_ link.
- **Edit contribution** - this web part allows you to edit an existing document.

## Further reading

- To learn how to create a new section for publishing community news, see [Example - Publishing community news](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/user-contributions/example-publishing-community-news.md).
- To learn about the security possibilities of User contributions, see [User contributions security](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/user-contributions/user-contributions-security.md).