[wp-docs] Suggestions for WordPress Codex

[Chip Bennett]

Does the wp-docs team have a make.wordpress.org/docs site?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Lorelle on WordPress <
lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent to know that these options and features are now available. Many
> of them look like great ideas.
>
> Also, many of the WordPress mailing lists have now gone to p2 WordPress.com
> private or open blogs. I have been wanting to recommend that to the Docs
> Team for a long time and maybe this is the time to also make that change.
> I've got several WordPress.com subdomains reserved for such an occasion, and
> I think we reserved Codex and others early on in WordPress.com development.
>
> It would be a great way to create to do lists and tasks with associated
> threads. I know many of you are involved in other WordPress.com P2 setups,
> so I'd love your insights and advice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lorelle
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:30 AM, ThemeDaily Dot Com <admin at themedaily.com>wrote:
>
>> I think it will be better if this work processed by WP staff, because we
>> can't guarantee anything if others...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Jiehan Zheng <zheng at jiehan.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. One more point, may I ask for a higher permission on WordPress
>>> Codex?
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Tommy Yang <yt940928 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I was invited by Jiehan Zheng (who is currently the maintainer of
>>>> http://cn.wordpress.org) today to help translate Codex documentation
>>>> into zh-cn since I'm more familiar with MediaWiki than him. I was shocked
>>>> after I have read several pages.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Some users have added advertisement in the documentation
>>>> 2. (more shocking) None of the sysops have noticed that and remove that.
>>>> 3. When Jiehan asked me what to do, I told him "Remove the ad and give
>>>> that user a warning." He told me there're no user warning templates. (even
>>>> more shocking)
>>>> 4. (the most shocking)I tried to find a place to tell the sysops about
>>>> this, but I can't find any pages on Codex for reporting vandalism and abuse.
>>>>
>>>> I understand that on any wiki we ought to assume good faith. However, I
>>>> think WordPress Codex is somehow out of control and this is not acceptable
>>>> in my opinion.
>>>>
>>>> As a patroller and rollbacker in zh Wikipedia, I'd like to offer some
>>>> suggestions:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Add a page for all contributors to report vandalism and abuse since
>>>> sysops may not understand languages other than English.
>>>> 2. Add a Village Pump page for every locale to help contributors
>>>> cooperate more smoothly.
>>>> 3. Improve policies, guidelines and templates. Some basic policies,
>>>> guidelines and templates are still missing. Such as
>>>> the signature policy, {{inuse}} template, user warning templates and welcome
>>>> templates in different locales. Many policies, guidelines and templates
>>>> can be imported and altered from Wikipedia.
>>>> 4. Consider using the
>>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs extension and allow
>>>> *trusted* editors to review pages.
>>>>
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