[wp-docs] Suggestions for WordPress Codex

[Lorelle on WordPress]

Good question. So who do we contact about being on make.wordpress.org?
Others are mostly using WordPress.com. Cool.

Lorelle



On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 郑界涵 (Cheng Chieh-han) / Jiehan Zheng
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