I appreciate everyone's feedback and assistance. At this point I think my best contribution is to develop an open-source documentation platform capable of holding the quality of documentation that I would like to contribute rather than making contributions into a legacy system (ie a system that is not up to par with commercial systems). My aim is to do make something similar to the semi-proprietary system that I have developed http://wpacademy.tv/ww3.htm but in GPL and multi-authoring and based on Wordpress as the master repository (my system uses H&M as master repository). Anyone who wants to join me please write [email protected]. I have also contacted WordPress Foundation as per Lorelle's direction. thanks Marc
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lorelle on WordPress < [email protected]> wrote: > WordPress.tv folks can be reached through the WordPress Foundation. > > Lorelle > > > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Marc Beneteau <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> I do appreciate your invitations and believe me, the "gears are >> turning". The issue for me -- please allow me to speak plainly and if >> offense is taken I apologize in advance -- is that IMHO Wiki and Media >> Wiki are not suitable platforms for writing technical documentation, and >> perhaps one of the reasons why the WordPress documentation is not up to the >> same quality as WordPress code. But I've been seriously thinking about >> this, what needs to happen (again IMHO) is an open-source Winhelp-clone >> system powered by WordPress, that would be equivalent to my >> semi-proprietary system see for instance: >> >> http://wpacademy.tv/about-wordpress-webinar-marathon.htm >> >> But would also be multi-authoring (which mine is not). I think its >> doable, we just need to find coders, I can project-manage perhaps. Lorelle >> you know some of the people at wordpress.tv., I have an old email of >> yours that mentions some major documentation effort happening there, can >> you send me personal mail [email protected] with that information >> again? Anyone else interested as well, just let me know, this would be >> WAY cool if we could pull it off. >> >> Thanks >> >> Marc >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Andrea Rennick >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> As noted above, there's two ways you can contribute: >>> >>> - jump in to the codex and start writing / editing / correcting >>> information >>> >>> - help with the user manual, which right now is a bunch of HTML pages. >>> >>> This may or may not change. there are PLENTY of pages right now we need >>> people to edit so we can push an official user guide to actual users. >>> That's way more important to use that what software is used to produce it >>> (at this time). >>> >>> If you really want to jump in, get working, and earn a name for >>> yourself, the user manual is the best place to start. We would honestly >>> love to have you contribute. See this page >>> http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/ for the current work >>> list and you can also let me know personally which ones you'd like to start >>> with. We have a weekly chat in IRC on Thursdays at 5pm Eastern for >>> discussing specifics. >>> >>> >>> a. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Marc Beneteau <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> mm, sorry for wasting everyone's time, let me take up this conversation >>>> privately. >>>> >>>> I am just trying to understand if its possible to have a >>>> Wiki-compatible (multiple-authors) system that does what Winhelp does. >>>> Winhelp is the documentation format for virtually all commercial software >>>> for a reason, I would love it if we could do something similar for >>>> WordPress >>>> >>>> Marc >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Juan Correa <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Marc Beneteau >>>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Has there been any interest or any discussion in building a Wordpress >>>>>> manual on Media Wiki? I could get behind that. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> In fact, the WordPress Codex is powered by MediaWiki: >>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:About >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Juan Correa Poblete >>>>> PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl) >>>>> +56-9-99193873 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> wp-docs mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> wp-docs mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Andrea Rennick, http://wpebooks.com and http://ronandandrea.com >>> Co-author of WordPress All-In-One For Dummies http://rml.me/aio >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> wp-docs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-docs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > >
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