Hi :)
I think wiki-editing is a little beyond many here but at least it's less of
a leap!  I think a few people have had some practice at it by working on
the Faq;
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq

So people who are new to wiki-editing can be fairly confident of getting
help&advice or hints&tips from a few more of us here - and of course we can
probably point people to external documentation to help further.

From what i hear the people who are working on the translators version of
the inbuilt help are doing a fantastic job and it would be great if that
could be supported a bit.


Alex had some great points earlier in the thread and i agree that his
talents are probably most needed in QA and development.  I think he did a
great job in kick-starting documentation about Base with his work on the
Faq section about Base.


I think that if we can give new people suggestions about where they start
then they can either follow the suggestions or not, either way is good.  At
the moment we tend to stand around and wait for them to figure it out,
which is not so good imo.  If we could push them towards the wiki  so that
they get practice and experience with wiki-editing then they will be
ideally placed to either;
1.  work on the in-built guide or
2.  move to the Published Guides after the logins have been sorted out for
them.
I think it would really help to give them something so that they can "hit
the ground running" rather than just keep them standing around waiting.

Sorry if that is a bit harsh!  I think everyone here is doing a fantastic
job and that we just have to find ways to make the most of that -
preferably without anyone needing to do any more than they already do!
Regards from
Tom :)



On 27 August 2014 12:49, Sophie <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Le 26/08/2014 16:13, Alex Thurgood a écrit :
> > Le 26/08/2014 13:02, Tom Davies a écrit :
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> >> It would be great if people from this team could help get the
> translators
> >> version into better shape, that might mean less geeky or might be that
> it
> >> needs more reviewers.
> >>
> >
> > There already aren't enough people here on the documentation project in
> > the first place to carry out regular and consistent work here - that is
> > the point of Jean's other post - how can you legitimately now ask them
> > to go and help out translating/reviewing the built-in help ?
>
> For information, the en_US version (UI/Help) is currently maintained by
> the l10n team, which is not optimal none of us being native English
> speakers and most of us being alone to work on it's own language.
> As you said, help is very difficult to maintain. So with Kendy and Moggi
> working on it, we are trying to push it to the wiki help, to be
> maintained and translated from here, there is still technical issues to
> solve due to the structure or the current help files.
> The wiki will not be open to every one to avoid too much extra work for
> the l10n team, so there will be a reviewing process, just like there is
> on gerrit.
> Hi hope I'll be able to help to formalize the process and push it.
> In this case, the Doc team could be part of the reviewing team too.
> That will allow to share the work and get a better quality.
>
> Kind regards
> Sophie
>
>
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