docs: Add a contributing guide

README.md

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 ## Contributing
 
 RDFLib survives and grows via user contributions!
-Please read our [contributing guide](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/developers.html) to get started.
+Please read our [contributing guide](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CONTRIBUTING.html) and [developers guide](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developers.html) to get started.
 Please consider lodging Pull Requests here:
 
 * <https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pulls>

docs/CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# RDFLib Contributing Guide
+
+Thank you for considering contributing to RDFLib. This project has no formal
+funding or full-time maintainers and relies entirely on independent contributors
+to keep it alive and relevant.
+
+## Ways to contribute
+
+Some ways in which you can contribute to RDFLib are:
+
+- Address open issues:
+  [![GitHub issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/RDFLib/rdflib)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues)
+- Fix
+  [expected failure](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/how-to/skipping.html#xfail-mark-test-functions-as-expected-to-fail)
+  tests.
+- Add additional
+  [expected failure](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/how-to/skipping.html#xfail-mark-test-functions-as-expected-to-fail)
+  tests for open issues:
+  [![GitHub issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/RDFLib/rdflib)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues)
+- Add tests for untested code:
+  [![Coveralls branch](https://img.shields.io/coveralls/RDFLib/rdflib/master.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/RDFLib/rdflib?branch=master)
+- Review pull requests marked with the
+  [![review wanted](https://img.shields.io/badge/-review%20wanted-28ead2)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/labels/review%20wanted)
+  label.
+- Answer questions on Stack Overflow:
+  [![Stack Exchange questions](https://img.shields.io/stackexchange/stackoverflow/t/rdflib)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rdflib)
+- Convert
+  [`unittest`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html)
+  based tests to
+  [`pytest`](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/)
+  based tests:
+  [![GitHub search query](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-search-green)](https://github.com/search?q=unittest+repo%3ARDFLib%2Frdflib+extension%3Apy+path%3Atest%2F&type=Code)
+- Add, correct or improve docstrings:
+  [![rtd latest](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-informational)](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
+- Update the RDFLib Wikipedia entry:
+  [![Wikipedia: RDFLib](https://img.shields.io/badge/Wikipedia-RDFLib-informational)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFLib)
+- Update the RDFLib Wikidata entry:
+  [![Wikidata: Q7276224](https://img.shields.io/badge/Wikidata-Q7276224-informational)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7276224)
+- Participate on Gitter/Matrix chat:
+  [![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/RDFLib/rdflib.svg)](https://gitter.im/RDFLib/rdflib?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge) [![Matrix](https://img.shields.io/matrix/rdflib:matrix.org?label=matrix.org%20chat)](https://matrix.to/#/#RDFLib_rdflib:gitter.im)
+- Participate in GitHub discussions:
+  [![GitHub Discussions](https://img.shields.io/github/discussions/RDFLib/rdflib)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/discussions)
+- Fix flake8 failures.
+
+## Pull Requests
+
+Contributions that involve changes to the RDFLib repository have to be made with
+pull requests and should follow the [RDFLib developers guide](./developers.rst).
+
+## Code of Conduct
+
+All contributions to the project should be consistent with the [code of conduct](./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) adopted by RDFLib.

docs/index.rst

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+   CONTRIBUTING
 
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