Call for Community Docs Moderator volunteers

FTR I'll continue to help, but I don't need any extra perms. ;)

You can count me in, Jennifer. If you'd like to give me the "docs mod" role, I should have some time to pitch in and help manage things. :-)

Hi,

I don't think I qualify for documentation moderator since I haven't yet edited d.o documentation. However, if someone is willing to mentor me on best practices in documentation editing for the community, I am ready, willing and able to help out more in 2012. Even just pointing me to a single person to ask some questions offline will help me get move involved on this track.

-Joe

Please consider me as well. I've been involved with the Omega project documentation effort since the beginning.

I'll help too - I'm pretty sure I have the right permissions already.

I am very much interested! I have made a couple of documentation edits recently. And also want to get more involved and spend more time with drupal.org

Thx
Amrit

I'm excited that all of the people above who are new to documentation expressed interest -- hopefully my previous comment will help those people get started in contributing to Drupal Documentation. But it's probably not yet time to appoint you as official Docs Moderators, until you've been contributing as a regular Docs Writer for a while.

So what we need is a few more people who have experience writing and editing Documentation pages, and who are familiar with our procedures and policies, to step up and volunteer as Docs Moderators.

Any takers?

We now have a list of quite a few people who would like to be Community Documentation Moderators. Great! Let's get started!!

Some of you don't appear to have much of a track record (yet) of helping out with Drupal.org Documentation. What I'd like to do is have you start out by helping with tasks you can do without elevated permissions on Drupal.org, and then as you begin to have a track record, we'll give you permissions that will let you take on more responsibilities.

The list of responsibilities is at the top of this page (and I'm going to add it to another page under http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation shortly), but for those who are new to contributing to Documentation and/or don't have elevated privs yet, here's what I'd like you to do:

• Join the #drupal-docs irc channel. Add it to "auto-join" in your IRC client, and turn on your IRC client regularly.
• Subscribe to the Documentation issue queue. To do that:
  1. Visit your user profile page on Drupal.org.
  2. Click on the "Notifications" tab
  3. Enter "Documentation" in the "enter a project title" box in the "Issue email notification" section, and choose "All issues", so that you will receive an email message whenever there is any activity on a Documentation project issue.
  4. You probably also want to make sure that your default for non-specified projects is "Issues you follow", so that you receive notifications for non-Documentation issues you have chosen to follow (you can always un-follow them later if you lose interest).
  5. Save your settings.

  You might also want to make sure Drupal.org has your correct email address (on the Edit tab of your profile).

• As issues are reported, respond to them. There are instructions for what we want to have happen at http://drupal.org/node/1204344 and http://drupal.org/node/24565. If you have questions, respond as best you can (including your question), or ping me in the #drupal-docs IRC channel. Ideally, all issues in the Documentation project would be responded to within 24 hours... silverwing and I have been pretty much the only people responding to them regularly for quite a while now, so if the Moderation Team could take on this responsibility, that would be great! I'll delay responding myself for the time being, to give the new team a chance. :)
• Those of you who don't have experience editing Documentation pages, edit some pages (we probably won't grant elevated editing permissions to people who don't normally edit pages). To get started with that, see http://drupal.org/node/1424558
• If you've done a few edits, try "rolling in comments" on a few page. This task is described at http://drupal.org/node/1426262 -- and it's really important for the Moderators team, since deleting rolled-in comments is one of the main tasks. For now, if you don't have permission to delete comments, just follow the steps on that page (culminating in filing a documentation issue), and someone else (likely me) will take care of the actual deletion.

That's it for now... as we start to see evidence of contributions, we'll be granting elevated permissions to the new Documentation Moderator team -- thanks!

FYI - I just removed myself as the online docs coordinator on http://drupal.org/node/936522 since I haven't been terribly involved lately and my attention is elsewhere for now. If anyone wants to step up for that as well, the position is open!