[wp-docs] Feedback request - WordPress Help Manual platform

[Jerry Bates]

Hi Marc,

Again, I invite you to join us on the User Manual
project<http://make.wordpress.org/support/editor-access/>;
I don't think any of us working on docs currently believe that it is a
perfect system (and we debate it pretty frequently) but it is at least a
place to start.  Currently new users have *nothing to turn* to from
WordPress.org and that is a gap we're all trying to bridge.

You may not agree with it as it stands now, but our aim is to release early
and often, and refine as we go.  Who knows where we'll be when we get to
version 2 and beyond, but for now any help is appreciated, and would place
you at the heart of discussions as to how to make it better as we move
forward.

That or work on a plugin; you're getting a lot of encouragement here to
explore that route as well.

Best of luck,

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On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:

>  On 10/5/12 11:42 AM, Marc Beneteau wrote:
>
> Sorry Jane I am now confused.  "that is what the support group is working
> on http://svnbook.red-bean.com/"… you mean the Codex people (this list)?
> Or is this a separate group?  I want to be invited to that.
>
> There's no special invitation, you just start contributing. The group is
> at http://make.wordpress.org/support. That includes both support forums
> and documentation. The Codex is the existing documentation. The handbooks
> are the new documentation project they are working on there. Review the
> history on the blog there for more information. This list (along with the
> forums list) is semi-deprecated in favor of the blog, which is more
> accessible to potential contributors.
>
>   I have stuff to contribute but I am not very interested in working on a
> legacy platform, I hope that's clear now,
>
> It's been clear from your first email, as has been our disinterest in
> pursuing the windows-style platform you prefer.
>
>
>  and also I disagree with you " the SVN book is just HTML ", the
> organization of the topics is crucial,
>
> Yes, but the organization of topics is CONTENT, not PLATFORM.
>
>
>  and also the decision of whether this is going to context-sensitive help
> inside the dashboard
>
> Documentation and core ux are two different things. Changing the way help
> is treated in the dashboard would go through the core team. Nacin is the
> release lead, and 3.5 is already in beta, so suggestions for new features
> will probably be taken in January at the beginning of the 3.6 cycle. But
> again, there is nothing stopping you from making a plugin that does things
> exactly the way you want them, and releasing that. If someone who hasn't
> contributed to core before wants to make suggestions to change the core
> ux/ui, having a publicly released plugin that does what is being suggested
> will get more attention than someone just coming in cold and saying "I
> think you should do x".
>
>
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