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[Lorelle on WordPress]

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Lorelle


On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Marc Beneteau <docs at manifesting.net> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Juan Correa Poblete
>>>> PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl)
>>>> +56-9-99193873
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