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

[Laura Scott]

*raises hand*

Laura

On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Boris Mann wrote:

>
> 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
>
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