The Wiki Focus Group is for UF BT members who want to help update and maintain the Community Wiki. For other UF BT Focus Groups, see BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups.

The Beginner's Team wiki area exists for us to stay organized, not to write Help documents or Howto's. This is because we do not want to duplicate work that is done on http://help.ubuntu.com or http://wiki.ubuntu.com. All Wiki FG members should be subscribed to the ubuntu-doc mailing list. You MUST have a launchpad account to be on this team since it is required to edit the wiki. All FG members, please subscribe to this wiki page.

Current Happenings

The Summer of Documentation is now complete, check out the page at BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Wiki/SoD2008.

We will continue to work on the wiki with the following goals:

1. Work on remaining pages from CategoryCleanup and CategoryNeedsExpansion.

   1. Keep track of your work on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/Development.

2. Help implement the new Tag functionality throughout the community docs, which will replace some of the CategoryCategory usage. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiToDo/Tags.

   1. Specifically, we are removing pages from Cleanup and Expansion categories and applying the tags instead. Eventually the Deletion category will disappear, too, so please use Tags instead.

Meetings

Next meeting time: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at GMT 23:59 (8 PM Eastern, 7 PM Central, 6 PM Mountain, 5 PM Pacific).

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month in the team IRC channel - #ubuntuforums-beginners on irc.freenode.net

Meeting Agenda

Joining the Ubuntu Documentation Team

All Wiki FG members should be part of the official Ubuntu Documentation team, this is who we work with. Please follow links from inside the pages below and get to know what is happening before you apply. PLEASE READ through them in detail and ask Rocket2DMn or other experienced team members if you have any questions. Here is exactly what you should do (minimum), IN ORDER:

1. Read DocumentationTeam

   1. Visit their Launchpad page (no join option)

   2. Join the ubuntu-doc mailing list

2. Send an email to the mailing list, see Introducing Yourself to the Team, below. It is important that you send your introduction before requesting to join the team(s) (in the next few steps on this list).

3. Read DocumentationTeam/Mentoring

   1. Apply for the DocuMENTORS Launchpad team

4. Read WikiTeam

   1. Apply for the WikiTeam Launchpad team (they can be slow to respond)

If possible, you should read the minutes from recent team meetings - BeginnersTeam/Meetings#Wiki FG.

Introducing Yourself to the Team

You will need to send an email out on the ubuntu-doc mailing list to introduce yourself BEFORE requesting to join the team. Along with the information requested at DocumentationTeam/Mentoring, please tell them that you are with the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Wiki Focus Group.

Useful Pages to Bookmark

• Documentation Team

  • Mailing List: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc

  • Documentation Team: DocumentationTeam

    • Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc

    • DocuMENTORS: DocumentationTeam/Mentoring

      • Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc-students

    • WikiTeam

      • Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki

• Wiki Work

  • DocumentationTeam/WikiCleanup

  • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiToDo

  • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag

    • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiToDo/Tags

• Documentation Team Styling

  • DocumentationTeam/StyleGuide

  • DocumentationTeam/StyleGuide/ReferenceMaterials

Editing the Wiki

First, you must have a Launchpad account and be logged in from http://help.ubuntu.com/community in order to edit the community wiki. The wiki can be a little frustrating to edit sometimes, but there are a number of pages to help you get the feel for it.

Note that an extra newline is required to start a new paragraph.

If you see a page that you like and want to know how something was done, you don't usually need to click Edit to see the source. Most of the time you can click the drop down box at the top of the page that says More Actions and choose Raw Text. Learning by imitation is very helpful.

Links

• WikiGuide

• HelpOnFormatting

• HelpOnEditing - here are some of the most useful:

  • HelpOnHeadlines

  • HelpOnLinking

  • HelpOnLists

  • HelpOnTables

  • IconsPage

  • HelpOnSmileys

• Documentation Team Links for members interested in reviewing system documentation

  • DocumentationTeam/Repository

    • Bazaar in five minutes - a nice quick start quide

  • DocumentationTeam/ReviewingDocumentation

  • DocumentationTeam/TechReview

  • DocumentationTeam/TechReviewExample - example of review process, see DocumentationTeam/Repository for patching and submission process

Wiki Tips

• Where to submit a page for deletion: WikiToDo

• Redirecting Pages: HelpOnProcessingInstructions

• editing the wiki with a standard text editor

• Use Macros: HelpOnMacros

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