[wp-docs] New to list

[Charles E. Frees-Melvin]

The search is not great, or should I say the search in the theme. If  
you know mediawiki and can get to it's search page it's 6000% better.

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On 2009-07-08, at 15:10, Will Kemp <Will at Swaggie.net> wrote:

> On 07/08/2009 06:25 PM, Lorelle VanFossen wrote:
>> As everyone has said, welcome to the Codex and WordPress  
>> Documentation Team.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> Be sure and check out the guidelines for editing and working with the
>> Codex under the Community Portal. These will help you figure out  
>> how it
>> all works.
>
> That was the first thing i did!
>
>> * Ensure EVERY page on the Codex has the proper Category at the  
>> bottom
>> of each page. A page can be in more than one category, but we have  
>> to be
>> REALLY specific about categorizing the documents.
>
> Are there any category guidelines anywhere? I've looked, but i  
> haven't found it.
>
> I'm happy to spend as much time as i can going through the codex and  
> categorizing articles. It will be a good way to get to know what's  
> in there, anyway.
>
>> A document on Plugins
>> should go in the Plugins category, but if it is really basic, it  
>> should
>> also go in WordPress Lessons, but if complicated and very "developer"
>> then it also needs a cross reference in the Developer category,  
>> right?
>> It's a tough call sometimes but think about how the user will hunt  
>> for
>> the information and sort accordingly.
>
> For development type subjects, at least, i think the categories may  
> need to be more fine grained than that if they're going to be really  
> useful.
>
>> * Foreign Language articles - We need to put the articles in  
>> different
>> languages into their own language specific categories.  That will  
>> help
>> get those articles into their own grouping, and help us get that
>> information to the people who need it.
>
> If non-English languages are going to be in their own categories,  
> surely English language articles need to be categorized "English"?  
> Maybe i've missed something, but that doesn't appear to be happening.
>
>> Check the categorization and
>> language guidelines for how to categorized those.
>
> Where are they? (Is it just me that can't find anything in this wiki?)
>
> Will
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