Summary for Docs Team Meeting 9 December 2019

Transcript: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RP4WU5/p1575903630148600

Facilitator and Attendance

Facilitator: @kenshino
Note-taker: @ibdz

@kulsumsiddique will be facilitating next week’s meeting.

Attendees: @kenshino, @FahimMurshed, @atachibana, @ibdz, @kulsumsiddique, @mukesh27, @ediamin, @fierevere, @Carike, @nullbyte, @bph, @udfibonacci, @felipeelia, @estelaris, @leogermani

HelpHub Updates

@atachibana reported that there are no any movements for HelpHub except new release notes such as 5.3. The team is working on some page 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/ User Guide that was missing.

@kenshino started an idea to do a survey to find out the completeness and quality of end-user documentation. The survey is targeted to go out by February 2020. @atachibana and @bph will help create a survey about all end-user documentation.

HelpHub Localisation

@atachibana updated that there were 30 Japanese Codex pages migrated to Japanese HelpHub on the Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. at 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. Osaka.

Common APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. Handbook

@leogermani fixed some error on i18n page and has been working on editing plugins and themes handbooks.

DevHub Updates

@atachibana reported: Content: 280 of 1069 (26.2%) pages were redirected. Last week was 264 of 1069 (24.7%).

Next week meeting focus

@kenshino suggested about next meeting focus on discussing the Docs team organisation generally which could include Badges, Handbook, Management, or Meetings.

@kenshino asked all contributors who’d like to join Docs team regularly to give feedback to this post (https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2019/12/08/trac-trello-discussion-the-way-to-report-and-discuss-documentation-issues/) before next meeting.

Open Floor