WordCamp Europe Contributor Day, 8 June 2023

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https://europe.wordcamp.org/2023/contributor-day/

Everyone

If you attend this Contributor Day, please comment below with your WordPress.org username.

When you find the issue you'd like to work on, please leave a comment on that issue so that we can assign you and avoid more people working on the same issue. If you know which docs the project issue belongs to, you can tag the project rep as well.

For a quick fresh WordPress install, you can use WordPress Playground by going to https://playground.wordpress.net/

New 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.

Make sure you join #docs Slack channel. Once there, just wave :)

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

• General overview
• End user documentation
• Updating screenshots
• All Documentation team onboarding sessions

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 so that we can assign you and to avoid more people working on the same issue, and
2. In that comment, also be sure to tag the team rep responsible for the handbook that your chosen task is about.

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

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

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Tasks we plan to work on during the day:

1. Updating block editor end-user documentation

• WordPress 6.2 - all
• WordPress 6.1 - all
• WordPress 6.0 - creating new docs

2. Content review for older documentation

• Documentation licensing #372
• [HelpHub] Content review: Weblog client #470
• [HelpHub] Content review: Video shortcode #469
• [HelpHub] Content review: Comments in WordPress #458
• [HelpHub] Content review: Raw Handling (Copy-Paste support) #457
• [HelpHub] Content review: Preferences Overview #455
• [HelpHub] Content review - Introduction to Blogging #443
• [HelpHub] Content review - New to WordPress - Where to Start #442
• [HelpHub] Maintain a secure site #438
• [HelpHub] Content review for Creating a Search page #430
• Content review for article How WP processes post content #429
• Review content for Hosting WordPress #428
• Content review for Finding WP Help article #427
• FAQ's review content #426
• External links in article Comment Spam #420
• Content review - Automated installation #418
• Images from CDN are not opening by link after clicking on them in HelpHub articles in attending to zoom them #371
• [HelpHub] - Merge articles #190

3. Rewriting articles that are moved to the new Advanced Administration Handbook

Advanced administration handbook issues

4. Content review for mobile app end-user articles

Mobile app content review board

5. Anything you like

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

• 7 high priority
• 32 good first issue Good for newcomers
• 54 developer documentation (DevHub) Improvements or additions to developer documentation
• 114 user documentation (HelpHub) Improvements or additions to end-user documentation
• 13 advanced administration Issues for Advanced administration Handbook
• 7 contributor documentation
• and many more.. just take a look at all the labels.

[simonwheatley]

👋 Also @simonwheatley on WordPress.org

[jomarieminney]

I'm attending virtually! :P (and by that I mean precariously living through y'all, stalking slack and catching up on the issues I've already been assigned) - jominney on .org 😄

[apermo]

Also @apermo in WordPress

[emmyoungg]

Emmaht - https://profiles.wordpress.org/emmaht/

[benwvh]

Hello 👋 @BenWittert on WordPress.org

[RaulOne]

Here. raulito01 on WordPress.org

[aurigit]

Hi! This is aurimakela on WordPress.org, https://profiles.wordpress.org/aurimakela/

[bapman81]

Hi! Newcomer here! I am @bapman on wordpress.org!

[pekkakortelainen]

Hey! Here's my wordpress.org profile: pekkakortelainen

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Hey all, thank you for your contributions. Check your WP.ORG profiles for a new badge 😉