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This team is now deprecated. Official announcement about the team's closure can be found here.

The Wiki Focus Group is for UF BT members who want to help update and maintain the Community Wiki.

The Beginners 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 (actually, I think the wiki accepts OpenID now). All FG members, please subscribe to this wiki page.

Current Happenings

We are working on the community docs with the following goals:

  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 CategoryCleanup and applying the tags instead.

    2. Work on tagged pages, specifically for Needs Expansion, Content Cleanup, Style Cleanup, and Page Too Long.

  3. Orphaned Pages - These are pages with nothing linking to them. Help them find friends! Tag and update as needed.

  4. Other Wiki tasks listed at DocumentationTeam/Wiki/Tasks

Summer of Documentation 2008 - check out BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Wiki/SoD2008.

Meetings

See BeginnersTeam/Meetings for scheduling.

Meetings are held in the team IRC channel - #ubuntuforums-beginners on irc.freenode.net

Meeting Agenda

Who

What

Rocket2DMn

Summer of Documentation, 2009

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 DocumentationTeam/Wiki

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

Documentation team IRC channel is #ubuntu-doc on irc.freenode.net

Useful Pages to Bookmark

Editing the Wiki

First, you must have a Launchpad (or OpenID) 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 bottom of the page that says More Actions and choose Raw Text. Learning by imitation is very helpful.

Wiki Tips

CategoryBeginnersTeam