Documentation Team Contributor Day

For those attending Contributor Day, either online or in person

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 in person: @zzap, @estelaris

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
(https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/03/19/associating-github-accounts-with-wordpress-org-profiles/).
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:

Please leave a comment in that issue so that we can assign you and to avoid more people working on the same issue, and In that comment, also be sure to tag the [team rep responsible for the handbook (https://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/the-team/) that your chosen task is about.

For example, if your task is for the Block Editor End-User documentation, you would tag @atachibana or @zzap .

Check out the Team page in the Documentation Team Handbook for a list of team reps.

Onboarding during Contributor Day

After being onboarded as a new contributor, if you have questions or need onboarding, feel free to ask in the #docs channel on Slack so we can help.