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This team is responsible for coordinating all documentation initiatives around WordPress, including the handbooks and other general wordsmithing across the WordPress project.

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Weekly meetings

Join our discussions of documentation issues here on the blog and on Slack.

The documentation team holds weekly office hours and monthly Contributor Days on each Tuesday of the month in the #docs 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/. channel. It’s also where you can contact the team at any time outside meetings.

Attendance

@milana_cap @leonnugraha @sagargurnani @lumiblog @atachibana @shawncontant @estelaris @vishalmukadam @ppeeranatd @jeffr0

Housekeeping

Where: #docs channel on Slack
When: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at 14:00 UTC
Agenda: Agenda for Docs Team Biweekly Meeting (16-April-2024)
Meeting Facilitator: @leonnugraha
Note Taker: @lumiblog

Find the complete Transcript of the meeting on Slack.

Upcoming Meeting

Where: #docs channel on Slack
When: Docs Team Meeting May 7, 2024 at 14:00 UTC
Meeting facilitator: @sagargurnani
Note taker: @sagargurnani
Upcoming Triage Meeting: Docs Team Triage April 30, 2024 at 14:00 UTC
Upcoming Triage Facilitators: @milana_cap / @leonnugraha

Project Checks

@estelaris is working on all her tickets at Yoast 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/..

@milana_cap has been mostly reviewing Playground docs in anticipation of Yoast’s Contributor Day, where we’re going to help improve them.

@leonnugraha reviewed and updated #1323. He also reviewed and closed #1342 and #1341.

@sagargurnani is doing a 2nd review of #490 and will look into other urgent issues.

@shawncontant expressed commitment to working on #978 this coming week.

@atachibana shared progress on #464.

@ppeeranatd is working on #1514.

Open Floor

@estelaris shared that it’s official that 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. for Documentations will be happening in October 2024. The WordCamp will be a 24-hr online event to cover all time zones.

She will post a general plan on the Make WordPress Docs Blog and then open a website with a call for organizers.

Will officially invite other teams that work on documentation like support, training and anyone that updates a handbook under dev.wp.org to join.

Anyone who wants to be an organizer or a speaker is encouraged to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @estelaris.

@estelaris also noted that next time on the agenda will not be an @estelaris update, but a WCDocs update.

On another topic, @estelaris updated that The Spanish community is ready to start translating HelpHub.

@milana_cap shared that Yoast Contributor Day will happen on Thursday, 18th April, and everyone is welcome to join.

Props to @estelaris and @sagargurnani for helping with reviewing the post.

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