[documentation] How to get more people involved with documentation

[Kieran Lal]

Dries and Steven, can we get a edit book pages privilege role only,  
but not administer nodes?

We could make some progress if we could hand out a couple dozen  
permissions to folks interested in helping out.

Kieran


On Jun 16, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:

>
> Laura Scott wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> Laura -- very nicely said -- I've said this before, and I'll say it  
> again -- I'll contribute in the forums much more readily than  
> contributing to the handbooks because I can respond to multiple  
> forum posts in the same amount of time it takes to create handbook  
> documentation -- right now, when I see a handbook page that needs  
> editing, my only option is to post a comment on the page, or email  
> this list,or raise an issue about the page on drupal.org -- while I  
> understand that these mechanisms work, I also understand from  
> setting up countless drupal sites that it can be easier.
>
> I'm a firm believer in creating good documentation, and I do a fair  
> amount of work supporting new users. It doesn't need to be this  
> difficult. As Charlie/Laura/Angela all have suggested in past  
> threads, and as I repeat here, give edit privileges to people who  
> have contributed handbook pages. If a user proves they can't handle  
> the access, then take the rights away.
>
> My .02
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
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