[documentation] How to get more people involved with documentation

[Kieran Lal]

On Jun 17, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:

> I created a new role 'documentation maintainers' and gave them full  
> access to the book.module -- would that work?

Any way to see exactly what parts of Drupal.org are book parts?  Yes,  
I realize it's a few thousand pages :-)

I'd like to make sure we migrate anything we don't want changed to  
another content type before offering the permission widely.

Kieran

>
> On 17 Jun 2006, at 03:01, Steven Peck wrote:
>
>> I think that should work out as a first step to see how things goes.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org
>>> [mailto:documentation-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Kieran Lal
>>> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:48 AM
>>> To: A list for documentation writers; Dries Buytaert; Steven Peck
>>> Subject: [documentation] How to get more people involved with
>>> documentation
>>>
>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
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