Contributor Day — 23 May, 2023

[jennimckinnon]

Welcome to the third online WordPress Documentation team's Contributor Day

This is the third online Make WordPress Documentation Team’s independently-led Contributor Day. It’s also the second of the monthly Contributor Days that are held the fourth Tuesday of each month.

You can join us via Zoom on 23 May, between 1 PM UTC and 4 PM UTC.

For those attending this Contributor Day

If you attend this Contributor Day, please comment below with:

• Your WordPress.org profile username
• Link(s) to the issue(s) you're working on during the Contributor Day

People to go ask for help on Slack or on Zoom: @zzap, @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, @femkreations, and @jennimckinnon

New(er) contributors

If this is your first time contributing to the Documentation team, please make sure you have the following accounts:

• WordPress.org account.
• WordPress Slack account (wordpress.org account is needed).
• GitHub account – connect your GitHub account to your WordPress.org profile.
• Make sure you join #docs Slack channel. Once there, just wave :)

Following videos/onboarding sessions can be helpful for performing the tasks we plan to work on:

• General overview
• End user documentation
• Updating screenshots

For general details on how GitHub works, check out GitHub’s Getting Started Guide.

When you find issue you'd like to work on in the Docs Team Issue Tracker here on GitHub:

1. Please leave a comment in that issue so that we can assign you and to avoid more people working on the same issue, and
2. In that comment, also be sure to tag the team rep responsible for the handbook that your chosen task is about.

For example, if your task is for the Block Editor End-User documentation, you would tag @femkreations.

Check out the Team page in the Documentation Team Handbook for a list of team reps.

Onboarding during Contributor Day

If you have questions or need onboarding, feel free to ask in the #docs channel on Slack or in Zoom. We'll create a breakout room in Zoom to field any questions you may have.

General task list

Tasks we plan to work on during the day:

1. Updating block editor end user documentation

6.2 - medium priority
6.1 - normal priority
6.0 - updating existing docs

3. Content review for mobile app end-user articles

• Mobile app content review board
• Promote Helping to Documentation team with Mobile Apps docs #219

Person to go ask for help: @estelaris, @jennimckinnon, @zzap

4. Content review for older documentation

• Move articles from Helphub to Devhub #388
• Unnecessary articles to delete #373
• Documentation licensing #372
• [HelpHub] Content review: Audio shortcode #475
• [HelpHub] Content revision - duplicate: WP.org vs WP.com #473
• [HelpHub] Content review: WordPress Privacy #472
• [HelpHub] Content review: WordPress Feeds #471
• [HelpHub] Content review: Weblog client #470
• [HelpHub] Content review: Video shortcode #469
• [HelpHub] Content review: Comments in WordPress #458
• [HelpHub] Content review: Raw Handling (Copy-Paste support) #457
• [HelpHub] Content review: Preferences Overview #455
• [HelpHub] Content review - Password Best Practices #452
• [HelpHub] Content review - Introduction to Blogging #443
• [HelpHub] Content review - New to WordPress - Where to Start #442
• [HelpHub] Maintain a secure site #438
• [HelpHub] Three articles on keyboard shortcuts? #432
• [HelpHub] Content review for Creating a Search page #430
• Content review for article How WP processes post content #429
• Review content for Hosting WordPress #428
• Content review for Finding WP Help article #427
• FAQ's review content #426
• Is this a duplicated article? Dimension Controls Overview #425
• Outdated content and links to Codex in CSS #424
• External links in article Comment Spam #420
• Content review - Automated installation #418
• Images from CDN are not opening by link after clicking on them in HelpHub articles in attending to zoom them #371
• [HelpHub] Change article titles #192
• [HelpHub] - Merge articles #190

Person to go ask for help: @estelaris, @zzap

5. Review all articles to confirm images and links are working. Several articles have broken links since the migration. Open individual tickets

Example:
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6944

Need help?

People to go ask for help on Slack or on Zoom: @zzap, @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, @femkreations, @jennimckinnon

[zzap]

Heads up @WordPress/docs-issues-coordinators, we have a new issue open. Time to use 'em labels.

[femkreations]

#482 reviewed all the pages in this task and closed
461: Updated the page, added content and screenshots
Moved all the pending ToDo Items from 6.1 to 6.2 Project board

[jennimckinnon]

On WordPress.org: @ ninianepress

Closed issue 826, and onboarded a handful of people

[jomarieminney]

@jominney on WordPress.org
#452 - closed (also 733, related)
#717 - second review completed (can be closed)
#715 - article published, new content for individual blocks and additional section on new article added to issue for review.
#826 - closed mostly thanks to @jennimckinnon :)

[Leonardus-Nugraha]

leonnugraha on WordPress.org

closed #700
reviewed update for #271, but didn't have the time to push the update to the article