[drupal-docs] Admin help needs to be read by CivicSpace users

[Liza Sabater]

Kieran,

How pressed for time are we? I'm trying to get my head above water 
these days and just by eyeballing the manuals, I'd have to spend a lot 
more time on them than what I have at the moment.

For example, this is on the about page:

> Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users 
> to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a 
> website.

If it were up to me, the word CONTENT would not appear at all on this 
page. OK, maybe once.

Dynamic sites (that is, sites powered with CMS's or interactive net 
media) are not about "CONTENT". They are about "presence", "persona". 
Newspapers and magazines offer content. But everybody else who has a 
dynamic site is doing it to not just establish their presence on the 
web but to use the web to EXPAND, EXTEND AND AUGMENT who they are as an 
organization or an individual THROUGH THE WEB.

I really want to start working on creating a more powerful vision for 
Drupal and CivicSpace that goes beyond the idea their CMS's. It makes 
selling the idea of a dynamic site far more easier by taking away the 
techno-speak and treating it as what it really is : an extension of 
human activity.

Best,
liza sabater
www.culturekitchen.com



On May 27 2005, at 03:25, Kieran Lal wrote:

> Howdy, 203 of you completed the documentation survey and told us that 
> the number one thing you wanted was module documentation.
>
> The goal of this admin help documentation is:
> 1) Provide documentation for modules.
> 2) Improve the usability of the admin help.
> 3) Improve the documentation teams ability to work with admin help by 
> single sourcing it from the documentation handbook.
>
> Here is the documentation for the core 
> modules:http://drupal.org/handbook/modules
> Here is the documentation for the added modules: 
> http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/contributions
>
> The handbook module pages start with executive summaries that are also 
> admin help.  Pretty clever, don't you think.  The handbooks are 
> currently under development, stay tuned for more improvements.  It 
> would be greatly appreciated if knowledgeable CivicSpace users could 
> read some of them and report back on where they are wrong.
>
> If you need a site to confirm this documentation, create an account 
> on: http://demo.civicspacelabs.org/home and send me a link to your 
> profile.  I'll make sure you get the access you need to confirm the 
> documentation is accurate.
>
> Thanks for you help,
> Kieran
>
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