[wp-docs] WordPress Help Manual on WP Academy

[Marc Beneteau]

Guys,

I do appreciate your invitations and believe me, the "gears are turning".
The issue for me -- please allow me to speak plainly and if offense is
taken I apologize in advance  -- is that IMHO Wiki and Media Wiki are not
suitable platforms for writing technical documentation, and perhaps one of
the reasons why the WordPress documentation is not up to the same quality
as WordPress code.  But I've been seriously thinking about this, what needs
to happen (again IMHO) is an open-source Winhelp-clone system powered by
WordPress, that would be equivalent to my semi-proprietary system see for
instance:

http://wpacademy.tv/about-wordpress-webinar-marathon.htm

But would also be multi-authoring (which mine is not).  I think its doable,
we just need to find coders, I can project-manage perhaps.  Lorelle you
know some of the people at wordpress.tv.,  I have an old email of yours
that mentions some major documentation effort happening there, can you send
me personal mail marc at wpacademy.tv with that information again?   Anyone
else interested as well, just let me know, this would be WAY cool if we
could pull it off.

Thanks

Marc





On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Andrea Rennick <andrea at ronandandrea.com>wrote:

> As noted above, there's two ways you can contribute:
>
> - jump in to the codex and start writing / editing / correcting information
>
> - help with the user manual, which right now is a bunch of HTML pages.
>
> This may or may not change. there are PLENTY of pages right now we need
> people to edit so we can push an official user guide to actual users.
> That's way more important to use that what software is used to produce it
> (at this time).
>
> If you really want to jump in, get working, and earn a name for yourself,
> the user manual is the best place to start. We would honestly love to have
> you contribute. See this page
> http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/ for the current work list
> and you can also let me know personally which ones you'd like to start
> with. We have a weekly chat in IRC on Thursdays at 5pm Eastern for
> discussing specifics.
>
>
> a.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Marc Beneteau <docs at manifesting.net>wrote:
>
>> mm, sorry for wasting everyone's time, let me take up this conversation
>> privately.
>>
>> I am just trying to understand if its possible to have a Wiki-compatible
>> (multiple-authors) system that does what Winhelp does.  Winhelp is the
>> documentation format for virtually all commercial software for a reason, I
>> would love it if we could do something similar for WordPress
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Juan Correa <pottersys at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Marc Beneteau <docs at manifesting.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has there been any interest or any discussion in building a Wordpress
>>>> manual on Media Wiki?  I could get behind that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In fact, the WordPress Codex is powered by MediaWiki:
>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:About
>>>
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>>> +56-9-99193873
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