SoD2009

Summer of Documentation

Due to the success of the same effort that took place in 2008, the 2009 Summer of Documentation was another effort by a handful of Ubuntu Forums BeginnersTeam members to help get the Community Docs up to date by working with the Ubuntu DocumentationTeam, particularly the Wiki Team.

Major Work

Quality Control

In 2008, the Documentation Team started implementing the Tag system on the Community Docs. This year we finished the transition from the old Category system to using Tags (with the help of some who did not contribute directly to the Summer of Documentation). This new system makes it easier for users to track what pages need attention on the wiki, and what type of attention is required.

Orphaned Pages

The fact that the wiki is open for anybody to work on, pages can easily get isolated from the rest of the existing documentation. One of the tasks this summer was to help setup links to and from Orphaned Pages, which are pages that aren't linked to from anywhere else inside the wiki.

Wiki Pages

Of course, a key component to getting the Community Docs up to date involved actually working on pages that were tagged for Cleanup and/or Expansion. These are pages that the BT members contributing to the SoD did heavy work on. It is by no means a complete list of the work done, but highlights some of this year's most visible achievements.

Page

Editor

Date Finished (Year-Month-Day)

FirefoxRelatedPages

Rocket2DMn

2009-04-11

GnomeTerminal

Rocket2DMn

2009-04-11

gedit

drs305

2009-05-01

EOLUpgrades, UpgradeNotes, FeistyUpgrades, FeistyUpgradesManual, GutsyUpgrades

Rocket2DMn

2009-05-01

BootOptions

drs305

2009-05-05

RecoverLostDiskSpace

drs305

2009-05-07

StartUpManager

drs305

2009-05-10

GnuPrivacyGuardHowto

thewrath

2009-05-19

IconsPage

Rocket2DMn

2009-06-08

PackageCDs

Rocket2DMn

2009-06-10

USB

Silver_Fox

2009-06-17

TheGIMP

Silver_Fox

2009-06-17

SoftwareManagement

Silver_Fox

2009-06-28

Metacity

drs305

2009-06-30

slrn

andrew_46

2009-07-04

HowToGetHelp

Silver_Fox

2009-07-06

Rhythmbox

Saj0577

< 2009-07-24

Geany

Saj0577

< 2009-07-24

Grub2

drs305

2009-07-26

Pidgin

drs305

2009-07-29

BackupYourSystem

starcraft.man

2009-07-31

Housecleaning and page deletions

Rocket2DMn

All Summer

Gufw

Rocket2DMn

2009-08-02

XChatHowto

drs305

2009-08-02

SimpleBackupSuite

starcraft.man

2009-08-02

Firewall

Rocket2DMn

2009-08-02

IsoImage & MountIso & ManageDiscImages

starcraft.man

2009-08-05

GnuCashHowTo

duanedesign

2009-08-06

GnuCash

duanedesign

2009-08-06

VNC

Silver_Fox

2009-08-08

NetworkConfigurationCommandLine

duanedesign

2009-08-13

UFW

Rocket2DMn

2009-08-16

EdubuntuRecipes

cprofitt

2009-08-16 (redirection to cookbook page)

QuickTips

lukjad007

2009-08-16

TAR

starcraft.man

2009-08-16

find

andrew_46

2009-08-21

System Documentation

There was also some effort this year to work on System Documentation. Though we won't list specific items here this year, we expect that this is a field which BT Wiki Focus Group members will get more involved with in the future.

Closing

This year was a successful followup to last year's effort, and again we hope that it had a positive effect on the Ubuntu community. The Beginners Team will continue to contribute to the Community Docs and other areas of Ubuntu Documentation, esp. as we approach the release of Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala."

I would like to thank all the members of the Beginners Team who helped contribute to this project in any capacity - your dedication and commitment made this year's SoD another success. The Beginners Team would also like to thank the DocumentationTeam for supporting our efforts. Thank you.


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