[documentation] Improving help text in core (proposal from Dev list)

[O Govinda]

On  Jul 3 Konstantin Käfer (kkaefer at gmail.com) posted a text on the
Development list that said, in part:

"I am a translator as well (German translation) and . . . 

"I'd like to propose something else, though: While translating, I get  
to read all the help text included in Drupal, and I noticed that most  
of those help texts are not very well written and even include  
factual errors (e.g. removed features, no mention of newly added  
features etc.). I'd like to cast a kind of 'user interface text team'  
that especially takes care of such issues. We could for example set  
up a site with Drupal 6, enable locale module and use it to modify  
the english strings (english -> english 'translation'). After we've  
fixed those strings, we can create patches against HEAD. Not sure if  
that's a good/practiable solution. Any suggestions?"

I am cross-posting that message here, since we have discussed similar
issues.

Cordially, 
O Govinda
www.jswami.info

PS: Konstantin's text appears here:
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2007-July/025101.html
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