This month in Drupal Documentation - August 2014
This is the 'almost' monthly update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been going on in Drupal Documentation. Because this is posted in the Core group, comments for this post are disabled, but if you have comments or suggestions, please see the DocWG home page for how to contact us. Enjoy!
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This Month in Drupal Documentation - June 2014
Welcome to the second This Month in Drupal Documentation!
"This Month in Drupal Documentation" (TMIDD) is an approximately monthly update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last month or so. Sorry... because this is posted in the Core group as well as Documentation, comments are disabled.
If you have comments or suggestions, please see the DocWG home page for how to contact us. Thanks!
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Write the Docs Unconference - Berlin
Write the Docs Unconferences are peer-to-peer events focused on documentation systems, tech writing theory, and information delivery.
Writing and maintaining documentation involves the talents of a multidisciplinary community of technical writers, designers, typesetters, developers, support teams, marketers, and many others. Our conferences create a time and a place for this community of documentarians to share information, discuss ideas, and work together to improve the art and science of documentation.
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Introducing... This Month in Drupal Documentation (TMIDD)
Similar to "This Week in Drupal Core", the relatively new Documentation Working Group (DocWG) is trying out a new communication strategy: an approximately monthly post on what is happening in Drupal Documentation. We'll be posting this both to the Core and Documentation groups on groups.drupal.org, and because it is posted to Core, comments will be disabled by policy.
Read moreDocumentation Working Group
As you probably know, over the past several months, Dries Buytaert has been formalizing the governance structure of the Drupal project, by forming a number of governance committees. A few weeks ago, he chartered the Documentation Working Group, consisting (currently) of Boris Doesborg (batigolix), Lee Hunter (LeeHunter), Joe Shindelar (eojthebrave), and myself.
Read moreDocumentation Sprint Dev Days Szeged
The documentation sprint takes places during the Szeged Drupal Developer Days
We want to focus on the different Multilingual issues.
We need people to check the existing help texts to see what functionality and wording has changed and where necessary rewrite them, as well as writing new texts for new modules and functionalities. We also need people to manually test the texts.
Read moreDrupalCon Prague Documentation Sprint
28 contributers who took up tasks in 38 issues both at the sprint and working remotely, 32 inital patches and at least one contributer who had his first patch committed to Drupal 8 - that's just the figures from the Documentation Sprint at DrupalCon Prague.
What made it work?
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Drupalcon Prague Doc Sprint
Another Drupalcon and another Docs Sprint! Join us in Panorama Hall or on IRC and help get the docs ready for Drupal 8.
Some of the work to be done includes trying out existing (or patched) hook_help, and checking for:
- Clarity
- Accuracy (Making sure the text matches what's on the admin screens)
- Completeness (Covers most or all of what the module does)
- Style
- Working links
An issue that lists all the D8 modules is here: https://drupal.org/node/1908570
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BoF at Portland DrupalCon
Is anyone attending Portland DrupalCon 2013 interested in a BoF session? Could be a good way to get some more momentum or volunteers in this area.
Read morePanelists for "Structured Content Authoring" session at Design for Drupal Boston?
One of the important challenges facing the effort to improve Drupal as tech comm tool is getting the right user experience for authors especially when we start adding things like conditional text, single-sourced content and DITA-style mapping.
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