Welcome to the official home of the WordPress documentation team.
This team is responsible for coordinating all documentation initiatives around WordPress, including the Codex (moving to HelpHub and DevHub), handbooks, parts of developer.wordpress.org, admin help, inline docs, and other general wordsmithing across the WordPress project.
Want to get involved?
There are many ways in which you can help the Docs team. Every small contribution counts and helps! You can report an issue or typo you found in the docs, or even help us write new documentation for parts that are still missing. These are some helpful links to find out more about what we do and how to collaborate:
@valentinbora to post DevHub migration cross-check code to GitHub [update: done]
@milana_cap to update workflow for facilitating a meeting by including a step to review prior meeting notes
@milana_cap@kenshino to confirm usage of CrowdSignal or another service for hosting the survey
@atachibana to coordinate survey review before it goes live
@leogermani to review and update the Handbook and welcome box to attract new contributors
@leogermani to reach out to the #meta team to ask for stats to help highlight how important, popular and relevant docs are, as well as stats to support the survey (most viewed pages, devices used, referrals, searches etc.)
@valentinbora updated the team about a quick tool he’s written to cross-check migration status for Functions as he found quite a few pages out of sync in the Sheet vs. their actual live status. Before automated corrections there were 480/1069 Functions done (44.9%), after corrections we’ve won some and lost some, tallying to 374/1069 (35%)
@leogermani reminded everyone that the purpose of the survey is to learn: “How complete is our documentation and how can we improve our user docs?”
@themiked considered the survey to be asking some questions that could be inferred by statistics instead
@mkaz asked whether the survey was to be taken from a user’s or a developer’s standpoint. @leogermani clarified that it’s both
@themiked mentioned that the question “How complete is our documentation” is a difficult one to answer for end-users but we could still give it a try
@leogermani encouraged feedback for the survey to go to the p2 post linked above in order to have it all in one place but would like to hear from @bph in terms of the roadmap for the survey, with WordCamp Asia in mind.
Comments for the survey should be added by February 12th in order to prepare the survey well enough in advance before WordCamp Asia happening on February 21st, 2020.
@mkaz considers open ended questions to be difficult for end-users to answer and is wondering whether end-users get their answers from official documentation or elsewhere
@bph, @leogermani, @milana_cap discussed where to publish the survey, be it CrowdSignal or Pollbuddy vs. Google Forms. @kenshino should have something to say about that
@kenshino@milana_cap agreed to first focus on gathering the right questions to survey for before February 12th
@leogermani would like to attract more people to contribute to Docs and wants to review the Welcome box on the handbook page and bring documentation up to date to make it easier for newcomers.
@atachibana mentioned @estelaris‘ suggestion to reorganize the documentation tree with categories and subcategories.
@valentinbora suggested reviewing barriers to entry alongside motivational efforts for new contributors
@kenshino suggested to simplify the docs badge tracking Sheet to just two tabs. Any project leads can add contributors and they’ll be awarded a badge without question.
Open Floor
@valentinbora posted some tickets regarding DevHub and Explanation post types to help with Codex to DevHub migration (see more)
@leogermani@milana_cap mentioned @netweb was working on making it easier for setting up a local HelpHub environment for new code contributors to join in
@sukafia would like to know how to suggest edits to the HelpHub (user documentation) and @milana_cap suggested to ask in the #docs channel directly on Slack
@felipeloureirosantos posted an update regarding Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) docs. They have 5 new translated pages, 1 page in progress and a new contributor over the past week
@leogermani and @valentinbora conferred about the migration process, specifically that there’s little room for automation regarding redirection, but the redirect itself could be taken care of by an automated script once marked Ready for redirect
