[wp-docs] WordPress Help Manual on WP Academy

Sun Sep 23 03:05:30 UTC 2012

I appreciate everyone's feedback and assistance. At this point I think my
best contribution is to develop an open-source documentation platform
capable of holding the quality of documentation that I would like to
contribute rather than making contributions into a legacy system (ie a
system that is not up to par with commercial systems).  My aim is to do
make something similar to the semi-proprietary system that I have developed
http://wpacademy.tv/ww3.htm but in GPL and multi-authoring and based on
Wordpress as the master repository (my system uses H&M as master
repository).  Anyone who wants to join me please write marc at wpacademy.tv.
I have also contacted WordPress Foundation as per Lorelle's direction.
thanks
Marc

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lorelle on WordPress <
lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:

> WordPress.tv folks can be reached through the WordPress Foundation.
>
> Lorelle
>
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> 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
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>>>>> +56-9-99193873
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