Online monthly Docs Team Contributor Day June 24, 2025

The Documentation Team holds an online, monthly Contributor Day on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Any one may join who wishes to contribute to the team and who follows the Code of Conduct.

The next Docs Team 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/.

The next monthly online Docs Team Contributor Day will be:

When: Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 2:00-5:00 PM UTC

Where: #docs channel on Slack, and on Google Meet.

Please also see the ongoing Contributor Day post on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ for onboarding and other important details.

Onboarding

In addition to the details in the GitHub issue for this Contributor Day, folks who are in need of onboarding can ask in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. or on the video call.

If at any time you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the #docs channel on Slack or on the video call throughout the day.

To all contributors

To every contributor and attendee: Thank you. We’re so grateful for your time, care, and dedication. Cookies 🍪🍪🍪 and kudos all around! While no token of appreciation could ever match the depth of your impact on the WordPress project and our community, we hope you know just how seen, valued, and celebrated you truly are – even when words fall short.

We may not be able to thank you enough today – but maybe one day we can, because we’re part of an incredible community that can make it happen. Whatever “it” is, we’ll do it. Together.

#contributor-day, #docs

Summary of Docs Team meeting June 17, 2025

Attendance

@milana_cap, @estelaris, @ravigadhiyawp, @rollybueno, @dilip2615, @atachibana, @ninianepress, @hemant-ahir

Housekeeping

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Upcoming meetings

Project check

@estelaris had the following updates to share:

Summary of WCEU Contributor Day accomplishments:

  • Issues closed: 19
  • Articles updated: 8
  • Contributors: 12

Open floor

@estelaris was in a meeting last week with the Core AI Team and is working on a process for using AI for writing documentation. It will also be a blueprint for future AI integration into WordPress. Project updates will be provided as they become available.

@kenshino and @ninianepress will be trained by @estelaris to be the Docs Team leads for the next WordPress minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality..

#docs, #meetings, #summary

Agenda for Discussion Meeting (17 June 2025)

The meeting is scheduled with the following details:

When: Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 14:00 UTC

Where#docs channel on Slack

Agenda:

  1. Attendance.
  2. Note-taker and facilitator selection for the next docs team meeting.
  3. Project check.
  4. Open floor.

If there’s anything you’d like to discuss on the open floor, please leave a comment.

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Summary for Discussion Meeting (06-May-2025)

Attendance

@estelaris @divyeshk71 @azharderaiya @ravigadhiyawp @karthickmurugan @nikunj8866 @Dhruvang21 @DilipModhavadiya @70_Sense

Housekeeping

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Upcoming Meetings

Please notice the new meeting timings below.

Open floor

@estelaris explained the steps for contributing to documentation:

  • Find issues like outdated info, typos, broken links, or missing ALT text.
  • Report or pick issues from the GitHub Issue Tracker.
  • Share your updates in the comments or using a Google Doc in the GH issue.

Onboarding videos are available for more help.

#docs, #meetings, #summary

Agenda for Discussion Meeting (29 April 2025)

The meeting is scheduled with the following details:

When: Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 09:00 UTC

Where#docs channel on Slack

Agenda:

  1. Attendance.
  2. Note-taker and facilitator selection for the next docs team meeting.
  3. Project check.
  4. Open floor.

If there’s anything you’d like to discuss on the open floor, please leave a comment.

#agenda, #docs, #meetings

Agenda for Discussion Meeting (15-Apr-2025)

The meeting is scheduled with the following details:

WhenTuesday, 15-Apr-2025 14:00 UTC

Where#docs channel on Slack

Agenda:

  1. Attendance.
  2. Note-taker and facilitator selection for the next docs team meeting.
  3. Facilitator selection for the next triage.
  4. Project check.
  5. Open floor.

If there’s anything you’d like to discuss on the open floor, please leave a comment.

#agenda, #docs, #meetings

Summary for Discussion Meeting (01-Apr-2025)

Attendance

@milana_cap @sagargurnani @estelaris @karthickmurugan @kafleg @Dhruvang21 @nikunj8866 @snilesh @sirlouen @stephenaturner999 (async)

Housekeeping

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Upcoming Meetings

Project Checks

@milana_cap reviewed the issues completed by @karthickmurugan and she also has a list of duplicate issues to sort out.

@karthickmurugan had completed many issues which can be seen by here.

Open Floor

@milana_cap raised a concern that the majority of the team at the moment is from Asia. She believes 14:00 UTC is not the best time for the team to attend the meeting because it becomes very late for the team members living in APAC timezones. So, she would propose a poll for new meeting time that will include earlier hours on Tuesdays. The poll would be held today i.e. 02-Apr-2025 and would be initiated by herself.

@sagargurnani discussed how to attract more contributors to be the part of the #docs team and to work on the  #docs. To which @milana_cap said that it needs pushing and announcing it regularly on social media and every single 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. maybe we can work on docs per project, and treat every project as “job posting” create a call, share it everywhere record videos how we do stuff, so that people can be onboarded more easily maybe we need new onboarding stuff.

@estelaris mentioned Matt’s plan for one major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. per year and this will give us opportunity to catch up with all issues and documentation and there’s a need for a plan for that.

P.S. – Please drop your comments with your ideas for attracting more new contributors to the #docs team.

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Summary for Discussion Meeting (04-Mar-2025)

Attendance

@sumitsingh @Karthick @Troy @estelaris @milana_cap

Housekeeping

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Upcoming Meetings

Project Checks

@karthickmurugan has completed several HelpHub issues related to WordPress 6.7, and they are now ready for review before further progress. Most of these issues are documented in the following triage issue: #1841.

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Agenda for Discussion Meeting (18-Feb-2025)

Meeting is scheduled with the following details:

WhenTuesday, 18-Feb-2025 14:00 UTC

Where#docs channel on Slack

Agenda:

  1. Attendance.
  2. Note-taker and facilitator selection for the next docs team meeting.
  3. Facilitator selection for the next triage.
  4. Project check.
  5. Design updates by @estelaris.
  6. Open floor.

If there’s anything you’d like to discuss on the open floor, please leave a comment.

#agenda, #docs, #meetings

Summary for Discussion Meeting (04-Feb-2025)

Attendance

@atachibana @ninianepress @sagargurnani @leonnugraha @cwhitmore @dhavalkapadane @joelbarbara @benazeer @zeelthakkar @estelaris @milana_cap (async)

Housekeeping

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Upcoming Meetings

Project Checks

@atachibana has been working on the issues related to WP6.3 and likes to close them ASAP.

@karthickmurugan has completed 26 tickets, in which 3 of the issues moved to 2nd review and others pending for review.

@joelbarbara had discussed with @estelaris working on tickets related to release 6.2. So, he had worked on his first issue and wanted someone to review it.

@benazeer had worked on WP6.7 issue related to “post excerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox.”, “site tagline” and “verse blocks” and now she is waiting for the review.

@dhavalkapadane he had added screenshots, videos, and steps to #1767 and wanted someone to review it.

Open Floor

@estelaris mentions that because 6.8 is a release with no new features. The docs team should focus on catching up with previous releases and work on anything that’s outstanding.

@ninianepress thinks the idea of trying some A/B testing and changing the name of the Triage meetings is a great initiative. She also thinks that trying something without data isn’t as helpful as it would be to ask people why they don’t attend and/or contribute to those meetings. May be the team could make a quick Google form with different options and a space to add our answers. That way, we have some more insight to make informed plans for further testing.

@ninianepress is also planning on facilitating a Contributor Day this month so she’ll keep everyone posted on that.

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