Contributor Day — 29 August, 2023

[jennimckinnon]

Welcome to the online WordPress Documentation Team's Contributor Day

This the monthly online Make WordPress Documentation Team’s independently-led Contributor Day. It’s held on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

Please note: that the regularly scheduled Contributor Day was moved to the following week to accommodate WCUS.

You can join us via Zoom on 29 August, between 1 PM UTC and 4 PM UTC.

For those attending this Contributor Day

If you attend this Contributor Day, please comment below with:

• Your WordPress.org profile username
• Link(s) to the issue(s) you're working on during the Contributor Day

People to go ask for help on Slack or on Zoom: @zzap, @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, @shabnam611, and @jennimckinnon

Environment

For tasks that don't need WordPress 6.3 RC (release candidate), you can set WordPress install in one click by visiting https://playground.wordpress.net/.

For tasks that need WordPress 6.3 RC, you can use this demo tool https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=beta-rc&d=v2.

Any questions you have, aks them in #docs Slack channel.

New(er) contributors

If this is your first time contributing to the Documentation team, please make sure you have the following accounts:

• WordPress.org account.
• WordPress Slack account (wordpress.org account is needed).
• GitHub account – connect [your GitHub account to your WordPress.org profile
• (https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/03/19/associating-github-accounts-with-wordpress-org-profiles/).
• Make sure you join #docs Slack channel. Once there, just wave :)

Following videos/onboarding sessions can be helpful for performing the tasks we plan to work on:

• General overview
• End user documentation
• Updating screenshots

For general details on how GitHub works, check out GitHub’s Getting Started Guide.

When you find issue you'd like to work on in the Docs Team Issue Tracker here on GitHub:

1. Please leave a comment in that issue so that we can assign you and to avoid more people working on the same issue, and
2. In that comment, also be sure to tag the team rep responsible for the handbook that your chosen task is about.

For example, if your task is for the Block Editor End-User documentation, you would tag @femkreations.

Check out the Team page in the Documentation Team Handbook for a list of team reps.

Onboarding during Contributor Day

If you have questions or need onboarding, feel free to ask in the #docs channel on Slack or in Zoom. We'll create a breakout room in Zoom to field any questions you may have.

Task list for new(er) contributors

For those who wish to contribute who are new(er) to the team, once you have taken a look at the onboarding material above, please feel free to take a look at our project boards that have issues labeled as a "good first issue":

• 6.3 Docs -- Good first issue

Person to go to for help: @femkreations, @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, @zzap, @shabnam611, and @jennimckinnon.

General task list

Tasks we plan to work on during the day:

1. Updating block editor end user documentation

WordPress6.3 - High priority
WordPress 6.3 - Medium priority
WordPress 6.2 - all
WordPress 6.1 - all
WordPress 6.0 - creating new docs

2. Content review for mobile app end-user articles

• Mobile app content review board
• Promote Helping to Documentation team with Mobile Apps docs #219

Person to go ask for help: @estelaris, @jennimckinnon

3. Review all articles to confirm images and links are working. Several articles have broken links since the migration. Open individual tickets.

Example:
https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6944

4. Other options for contributing

If the above list doesn't work for you, we have plenty of other issues you can work on:

7 high priority
32 good first issue
54 developer documentation (DevHub)
114 user documentation (HelpHub)
13 advanced administration
7 contributor documentation
and many more.. just take a look at all the labels.

Need help?

People to go ask for help on Slack or on Zoom: @zzap, @femkreations, @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, @shabnam611, and @jennimckinnon.

[github-actions]

Heads up @WordPress/docs-issues-coordinators, we have a new issue open. Time to use 'em labels.

[pekkakortelainen]

I'll keep working on this as discussed on Zoom with @jennimckinnon: #470