WordCamp US Contributors Day – input needed! – Make WordPress Documentation

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As most of you probably know, it’s nearly time for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US again. And with that also comes a Contributors Day! For this day Tom Ford and me will be leading the Documentation table. We want to have something to of course, and for that, we need your help!

Our main objective right now would be to find different topics that would fit into these two sections:

Something for experienced contributors to do.
Something suitable for newcomers that can easily be learned or picked up.

I’d like input from all of you (preferably on both subjects) with stuff we can do during that day. A soft deadline for that would be in 7 days, on December 5th. I’ll be gone traveling towards Nashville from then on, so I won’t be able to discuss or ask questions easily for a couple of days. A hard deadline would be on the morning of the actual Contributors Day.

Hopefully, you can come up with some interesting subjects.

Jon (Kenshino) 3:11 am on December 1, 2018

There are 2 key things on my mind

1. Continued editing of HelpHub articles
2. Adding of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/’s user docs

Both of which are suitable for newcomers and experienced contributors alike!
Milana Cap 11:15 pm on December 3, 2018

I would appreciate feedback on Handbook. Especially from first timers: what they expect to find and what is too much, what’s unclear etc.

Thank you

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