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Documentation team profile badge
Like many other Make teams, the Documentation team has two different badges: for Contributors and for Team members. Each team defines their own set of criteria for awarding badges. Who decides whether a badge is “earned” or not? The Documentation team has several active projects, led by different people. These people know the effort behind…
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Facilitating the Documentation table at Contributor Day
Facilitating the Documentation table at 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 are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus.…
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Facilitating weekly meetings
Docs team meets once a week in WordPress #docs SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel. These meetings are used for short updates on current projects’ updates and discussions on current issues/problems/suggestions. Meetings require: Meeting agenda – published on Docs team’s blog…
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Reporting an issue
The Documentation team is in charge of several different projects across 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/. These projects use…
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Workflows
In this section we’ll try to explain various Documentation team workflows. We’ll cover scenarios from reporting a single issue as a one-time contributor, to fixing issues, facilitating weekly meetings and Documentation team table at Contributor Days.
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Projects to Translate
The WordPress project has a near-infinite number of translation projects, thanks to the inclusion of plugins and themes in translate.wordpress.orgtranslate.wordpress.org The platform for contributing to the translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins.. For new localeLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes…
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Writing a post
Should you wish to write a post on make/design there are a few things to go through. Asking to post Usually, you will be an active contributor to the team and collaborate at least first with a team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest…
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Documenting a focus
Preparing To start let’s look at some examples which could fall into ‘Focus’: A11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for…
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Current Focuses
A focus is a project that normally takes more time and likely includes multiple people and/or teams. Currently, focuses for design revolve around release roadmap posts and their subsequent projects, alongside scoping out Phase 3 efforts. Design Priorities Projects There are a range of project boards you can use to look at priorities in the…
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WordPress components
What are they? WordPress Components are the set of interface elements that make up the BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with…