Contributor Day — September 24, 2024

[jennimckinnon]

Welcome to the online WordPress Documentation Team's Contributor Day

This the monthly online Make WordPress Documentation Team’s independently-led Contributor Day. It’s held on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

You can join us via Zoom on September 24, between 1 PM UTC and 4 PM UTC.

For those attending this Contributor Day

If you attend this Contributor Day, please comment below with:

• Your WordPress.org profile username
• Link(s) to the issue(s) you're working on during the Contributor Day

People to go ask for help on Slack or on Zoom: @zzap, @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, and @jennimckinnon

Environment

You can set WordPress install in one click by visiting https://playground.wordpress.net/ use InstaWP sandbox https://app.instawp.io/onboard

Any questions you have, aks them in #docs Slack channel.

New(er) contributors

If this is your first time contributing to the Documentation team, please make sure you have the following accounts:

• WordPress.org account
• WordPress Slack account (wordpress.org account is needed)
• GitHub account – connect [your GitHub account to your WordPress.org profile
• Link your GitHub account with your w.org account
• Make sure you join #docs Slack channel. Once there, just wave :)

Following videos/onboarding sessions can be helpful for performing the tasks we plan to work on:

• General overview
• End user documentation
• Updating screenshots

For general details on how GitHub works, check out GitHub’s Getting Started Guide.

When you find issue you'd like to work on in the Docs Team Issue Tracker here on GitHub:

1. Please leave a comment in that issue with /assign to assign yourself to the issue and avoid more than one person working on the same issue, and
2. When the issue is complete and you're submitting your content, also add /review to the comment so the issue can automatically have its status switched so that it's set to be reviewed.

Onboarding during Contributor Day

If you have questions or need onboarding, feel free to ask in the #docs channel on Slack or in Zoom. We'll create a breakout room in Zoom to field any questions you may have.

Task list for new(er) contributors

For those who wish to contribute who are new(er) to the team, once you have taken a look at the onboarding material above, please feel free to take a look at our project boards that have issues labeled as a "good first issue":

• Docs Issue Tracker -- Good first issue

Person to go to for help: @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, @zzap, and @jennimckinnon.

General task list

Tasks we plan to work on during the day:

1. Updating block editor end user documentation

WordPress 6.6 - all
WordPress 6.5 - all
WordPress 6.4 - High priority
WordPress 6.4 - all
WordPress 6.3 - Medium priority
WordPress 6.2 - all

2. Hand-picked issues by Estela

• [HelpHub] Facebook embed block documentation has broken images #1534
• [6.5 HelpHub] Group block background image #1509
• [6.5 HelpHub] Distraction free mode #1513
• [6.5 HelpHub] Preferences overview #1512
• [6.5 HelpHub] Block Patterns #1511
• [6.5 HelpHub] Site Editor Pages #1510
• [HelpHub][6.4][ALT]: Link Control Page #1345

4. Other options for contributing

If the above list doesn't work for you, we have plenty of other issues you can work on:

• high priority
• good first issue
• developer documentation (DevHub)
• user documentation (HelpHub)
• advanced administration
• contributor documentation
• and many more.. just take a look at all the labels.

Need help?

People to go ask for help on Slack or on Zoom: @zzap, @estelaris, @Leonardus-Nugraha, and @jennimckinnon.

[github-actions]

Heads up @WordPress/docs-issues-coordinators, we have a new issue open. Time to use 'em labels.

[jennimckinnon]

@zzap and I were there as well as two other people, but I don’t know their account names.