[documentation] [Documentation feature] Proposal: How to get more people involved with documentation

[Boris Mann]

On 16-Jun-06, at 11:20 AM, Laura Scott wrote:

> On Jun 16, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Boris Mann wrote:
>
>> On 16-Jun-06, at 9:52 AM, sime wrote:
>>
>>> There has been a lot of support for this, but all on the  
>>> documentation mailing list.
>>>
>>> Just a reminder about the ticket. Love to see some of these  
>>> comments added
>>> http://drupal.org/node/67367
>>
>> So....I'm in favour of this. Always have been.
>>
>> Here's my devil's advocate view:
>
> (I wonder, did the Vatican ever suspect their job description  
> "devil's advocate" would come into such popular usage?)....
>
>
>> As Kieran points out....the moderation queue gets very little  
>> attention. If moderated pages don't get attention....who will be  
>> checking over all these newly created and edited pages?
>>
>> I would like to see a steady effort by existing team members. I  
>> myself go in fits and spurts, so I understand how hard it is to  
>> keep up.
>>
>> Perhaps someone could
>> a) write up the process for looking at and approving moderated  
>> pages (I imagine it's there, if so, point to it)
>> b) write a forum post calling for documentation helpers/gardeners,  
>> pointing them at the process and getting their permissions upgraded.
>
> I'm sure a forum post might help attract new people, but let's face  
> it, there seem to be very few existing "team members" who actually  
> have any sort of privileges to do anything beyond the average n00b  
> user. I certainly am not the most prolific contributor, but I'm not  
> at the bottom of the list, either, but I've never seen an edit tab  
> on any page I did not write. Maybe I'm wrong, but going by my  
> experience and the very few names on the handbook updates page, it  
> seems that in actuality only a very small number of people actually  
> have any sort of privileges to edit pages or take pages out of  
> moderation.

Anyone that wants more edit permissions, just ask. IMHO, pretty much  
everyone on the list here should have those permissions.

And by just ask, I mean write a message to this list saying you would  
like documentation permissions (I have no idea what the role is  
called?) -- to this very thread, even.

We'll collate it and submit the list to Gerhard.

-- Boris