Hey,
I'd like to welcome Michele, the latest author here. :-)
Michele, next time you login you will see a "review list" on the left
side of the login page (below the navigation box). A great way to get
started is to review a document. Reviewing is an short-term task, so
it's a good way to get famliar with the project without a huge commitment.
The first steps are:
1) Pick a chapter that sounds interesting and click on it.
2) Download the chapter.
3) At the top-right corner you'll see the words "State: pending", with
"pending" in yellow. Click on that, and choose "retract". This takes the
chapter off the review list, so no two people review the same chapter at
the same time.
4) Send an email to the list saying which chapter you picked.
When you're done your review, just write back here, and we'll show you
where to put the reviewed chapter.
When you review a chapter, you can focus on whatever you're most
interested in. I usually focus on readability, and whether the
explanations are clear. Agnes, for example, will try out every
instruction to make sure they are all correct.
Ultimately, what matters most, is that when a user who doesn't know the
material reads the chapter, they can learn the contents as easily as
possible.
There are two really neat OOo tools you should use:
1) Tracking changes.
Go to Edit > Changes > Record.
With this you can delete text, rewrite text, insert stuff, etc. And OOo
will keep track of everything you're changing. When you send the chapter
back to the maintainer, they will see exactly what you changed, and
accept or reject the changes one by one. So you don't have to worry
about "editing too much". If the maintainer really disagrees with a
change, they just won't accept it.
2) Notes.
Go to Insert > Note.
This is like adding a yellow sticky note to the text. You can write
things like "good job!" or "I don't understand this section", etc.
Welcome aboard Michele!
Cheers,
Daniel.
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