Documentation Team Update – October 2, 2023

The Documentation team has a new meeting schedule:

• First Tuesday in month – meeting 2-3PM UTC
• Second Tuesday in month – issues triage 2-3PM UTC
• Third Tuesday in month – meeting 2-3PM UTC
• Fourth Tuesday in month – 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/. 1-4PM UTC
• Fifth Tuesday in month – not defined 2-3PM UTC (probably mixed meeting and triage)

A new GitHub repo is created for end-user documentation and its translations to all locales. More info about this can be found here.

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

• open issues: 372
  • developer documentation: 93
  • end user documentation: 149
    • mobile app: 9
  • contributor documentation: 12
  • advanced administration: 20
  • HelpHub feedback: 59
  • needs discussion: 19
  • good first issue: 51
  • help wanted: 2
  • 6.3 related: 45
  • 6.2 related: 34
  • 6.1 related: 14
  • 6.0 related: 7
• closed issues: 655

Past 7 days

4 issues closed:

• `WP_Query` pagination parameters `posts_per_page` description #918 closed 4 hours ago
• #41474 #57574 Download Media #672 closed last week
• [HelpHub] Border Settings overview #717 closed last week
• [HelpHub] Page List block #676 closed last week

9 issues opened:

• Add Creating Tables with Plugins Page to DevHub #1133 opened 3 days ago
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Templates > Template Hierarchy #1132 opened 4 days ago
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Publish Chapter 3: Global Settings and Styles #1131 opened 4 days ago
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Templates > Template Parts #1130 opened 5 days ago
• `esc_url_raw` misleading documentation, security/SSRF risk #1129 opened 5 days ago
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Templates > Templates #1128 opened last week
• Contributor Day — 26 September, 2023 #1127 opened last week
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Templates > Introduction to templates #1126 opened last week
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Templates > Chapter Landing Page #1125 opened last week

17 unresolved conversations:

• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Global Settings and Styles > Patterns #1124 commented on 4 days ago • 5 new comments
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Global Settings and Styles > Style Variations #1112 commented on 4 days ago • 2 new comments
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Global Settings and Styles > Template Parts #1116 commented on 4 days ago • 2 new comments
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Global Settings and Styles > Introduction to theme.json #1122 commented on 4 days ago • 2 new comments
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Global Settings and Styles > Styles #1117 commented on 3 days ago • 2 new comments
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Global Settings and Styles > Settings #1003 commented on 3 days ago • 2 new comments
• [HelpHub] Page/Post Sidebar settings #719 commented on 2 days ago • 2 new comments
• [HelpHub] Post Featured Image block #293 commented on last week • 1 new comment
• [HelpHub] Preferences overview #679 commented on last week • 1 new comment
• [Theme Handbook Overhaul] Global Settings and Styles > Custom Templates #1113 commented on 4 days ago • 1 new comment
• [HelpHub]: Styles overview #935 commented on last week • 0 new comments
• Issues Triage September 12, 2023 #1110 commented on last week • 0 new comments
• [HelpHub] Login/out #203 commented on last week • 0 new comments
• [HelpHub] WordPress Editor #678 commented on last week • 0 new comments
• Theme Handbook Overhaul (Tracking Ticket) #816 commented on 4 days ago • 0 new comments
• Add Action and Filter Reference Documents to DevHub #370 commented on 4 hours ago • 0 new comments
• Incorrect link to increasing memory limits #1051 commented on 4 hours ago • 0 new comments

Current projects:

• WP 6.3 Documentation
• WP 6.2 Documentation
• WP 6.1 Documentation
• Documentation for WordPress 6.0 release
• Block Editor End User Docs Update to 5.9
• Content Review
• Advanced administration handbook
• WordPress Glossary update
• WordPress Block Editor End-User Docs Inventory
• Inventory of Technical Parts From End User Docs
• Documentation team Handbook
• New design for HelpHub in WordPress.org
• End-user documentation
• End-user docs repo – workflows and settings

The Documentation team repositories:

• WordPress/WordPress-Documentation-Style-Guide
• WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker
• WordPress/documentation-end-user
• WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook

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