diff --git a/.github/FUNDING.yml b/.github/FUNDING.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..009cbb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/FUNDING.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Feel free to add yourself after && during participating at this repo!
+
+github: [do1jlr]
+liberapay: L3D
+custom: ['https://paypal.me/c3woc']
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index e611413..10e0d6d 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2020 Chaos Bodensee
+Copyright (c) 2020 L3D <l3d@c3woc.de>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e43aed0..bd5b4c6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
-# role-ranger
-Ansible role to install the ranger file manager on linux
+ role-ranger
+==============
+
+Ansible role to install the ranger file manager on linux. ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. More info about ranger is available at [github.com/ranger/ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger.git).
+
+```
+[WORK-IN-PROGRESS]
+```
diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
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index 0000000..1c4eebc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+---
+submodules_versioncheck: true
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..183d982
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+- include_tasks: versioncheck.yml
+  when: submodules_versioncheck|bool
+
diff --git a/tasks/versioncheck.yml b/tasks/versioncheck.yml
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index 0000000..9895582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/versioncheck.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+---
+- name: Create directory for versionscheck
+  become: true
+  file:
+    path: '/etc/.ansible-version'
+    state: directory
+    mode: 0755
+  when: submodules_versioncheck|bool
+
+- name: check playbook version
+  become: true
+  slurp:
+    src: "/etc/.ansible-version/{{ playbook_version_path }}"
+  register: playbook_version
+  when: submodules_versioncheck|bool
+  ignore_errors: yes
+
+- name: Print remote role version
+  debug:
+    msg: "Remote role version: {{ playbook_version.content | default('Y3VycmVudGx5IG5vdCBkZXBsb3llZAo=') | b64decode | string }}"
+  when: submodules_versioncheck|bool
+
+- name: Print locale role version
+  debug:
+    msg: "Local role version: '{{ playbook_version_number|string }}'."
+  when: submodules_versioncheck|bool
+
+- name: Check if your version is outdated
+  fail:
+    msg: "Your ansible module has the version '{{ playbook_version_number }}' and is outdated. You need to update it!"
+  when:
+    - playbook_version.content|default("Mgo=")|b64decode|int - 1 >= playbook_version_number|int and submodules_versioncheck|bool
+
+- name: check if '/etc/ansible-version/' is empty
+  find:
+    paths: '/etc/ansible-version/'
+  register: filesFound
+
+- name: write new version to remote disk
+  become: true
+  copy:
+    content: "{{ playbook_version_number }}"
+    dest: "/etc/.ansible-version/{{ playbook_version_path }}"
+  when: submodules_versioncheck|bool
diff --git a/vars/main.yml b/vars/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6795a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vars/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+playbook_version_number: 1024 # should be over ninethousand
+playbook_version_path: 'role-ranger_chaos-bodensee_github.com.version'