Basic Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Technical

• Markdown (live practice)
• Wayback Machine (?)
• Ability to use some GNU/Linux distro (e.g.: Ubuntu)

Linguistic

• Make sure to follow the Data Entry Checklist
• Technical jargon and styling conventions used in https://nandakumar.co.in/learn/ (just scroll through some Malayalam and English articles available there; pay attention to the words, language, and formatting)
• Punctuation, Capitalization, and Formatting (comma before etc., Oxford comma, $100 instead of 100$, etc.)
• Softwares is wrong (use software packages, pieces of software, etc.); find more examples

Legal

• Copyright, Trademark, and Patent
• Public domain (no copyright), other free software, proprietary software (including freeware)
• Free licenses (public domain, GPL, Creative Commons, etc.)

Desirable

• Unicode Malayalam input; you can use Inscript or some phonetic ("Manglish") method; it doesn't matter.

Helpful

Just scroll through these sites/pages to get familiar with some tech terminology so that you can easily recognize the words in my audio recordings:

• https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/
• https://slashdot.org/
• https://arstechnica.com/
• https://lwn.net/
• https://www.theregister.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software