Wiki
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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. All FG members, please subscribe to this wiki page.
Current Happenings
We are working on the Community Docs with the following goals:
Keep track of your work on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/Development.
Use the Tag functionality throughout the community docs to mark pages that need attention.
- Work on tagged pages, specifically for Needs Expansion, Content Cleanup, Style Cleanup, and Page Too Long.
Orphaned Pages - These are pages with nothing linking to them. Help them find friends! Tag and update as needed.
Other Wiki tasks listed at DocumentationTeam/Wiki/Tasks
As an aside for those interested, work on System Documentation bugs
Summer of Documentation 2009
Summer of Documentation 2008
Meetings
See BeginnersTeam/Meetings for scheduling.
Meetings are held in the Beginners Team IRC channel - #ubuntu-beginners - or the Documentation Team IRC channel - #ubuntu-doc - both on irc.freenode.net
Meeting Agenda
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Completed 2009 Summer of Documentation |
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Fall/Winter Activities |
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Other doc team activities |
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Edu FG Support |
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:
Read DocumentationTeam
Join the ubuntu-doc mailing list
- Send an email to the mailing list introducing yourself to the team.
Documentation team IRC channel is #ubuntu-doc on irc.freenode.net
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-contributors
- Wiki Work
- Documentation Team Styling
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.
Links
HelpOnEditing - here are some of the most useful:
- Documentation Team Links for members interested in reviewing system documentation
Bazaar in five minutes - a nice quick start quide
DocumentationTeam/TechReviewExample - example of review process, see DocumentationTeam/Repository for patching and submission process
Wiki Tips
To submit a page for deletion, use the "Candidate for deletion" Tag
Redirecting Pages: HelpOnProcessingInstructions
Use Macros: HelpOnMacros