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These are 6 admin help plugins that were discussed here to possibly look at to get ideas of what other ppl are doing that we may want to scrounge from. What follows is my fairly quick, first-pass reactions/notes. SH Contextual Help – threw lots of errors, using old, deprecated functions and bad roles and permissions…

We had the Admin Help chat today at 16:30 UTC. Not many people could make it so if this time is a problem we can change it to a time that is more suitable. All we did was outline the next steps, which are: 1. Get started with user testing me and @trishasalas 2. Review…

The team reps have been asked to propose new team reps. As Support & Docs are really one mega-team we’re going to have one support person and one docs person. I’m going to recommend Eric Amundson a.k.a. @sewmyheadon. He’s been doing great work on the Theme Developer Handbook, he’s has been running doc sprints and…

I fear that our meeting time was too early for people on the west cost of the US 🙁 How about we aim for . If that suits a lot of people it can become our regular time. I’ve got in touch with Automattic to find out the usage stats for the Help Tabs on…

We’ve been discussing on-and-off an issue tracker for documentation. We’re reaching the point at which we need to make this happen. This will solve two problems: people want to contribute to docs but don’t have a central list of tasks that they can sit down and tackle more and more contributor days are happening and…

Here are some tasks from the Theme Dev Handbook that can be carried out on docs at the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There…

@samuelsidler and I have put together the specs for developer.WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/. Please check them out and…

Here’s a draft of the proposed project scope: As part of the move towards developing features in plugins, we’re looking at making improvements to the WordPress admin help. On Monday at 3:30 UTC we discussed the issue in #wordpress-dev The Problem: The current Admin Help is hard to find unless you know it’s there. The…

Following up on the chat from Monday at 15:30 UTC about inline help or now more appropriately called Admin Help (see irc logs) . I’ve started some very rough outlines for user testing scripts. I’ve gotten 2 scenarios with slight variations in each. They are just outlines at this point and need to be fleshed…