Documentation quality assurance

[Matthew East]

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* Matthew Copple:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:15, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> For the websites:
>> Maybe there should be an official area by Canonical, one supervised area
>> at help.ubuntu.com/community, and a free area at wiki.ubuntu.com. All
>> three should have a distinguishable website design that makes the
>> different levels obvious.
>> I don't see a way around some oversight over the community part of
>> help.ubuntu.com, at least for some articles. E.g., it really should not
>> be possible to maliciously or ignorantly add harmful advice to
>> EdgyUpgrades, especially not around the release of Edgy.
> 
> I had a thought in that regard. This is more of a brainstorm than a 
> fully-formed idea, but it might serve as a foundation for discussion:
> 
> Why not institute the ubuntu version of a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" 
> for community-contributed how-tos? Give those pages a graphic, or perhaps 
> more prominent search placement (if that is possible technologically) if they 
> meet basic quality criteria. Just throwing out ideas here, but some of those 
> criteria could be:

Yes, absolutely. Please have a look at
https://features.launchpad.net/products/ubuntu-website/+spec/help-wiki-quality-assurance
and give your feedback - maybe we can find someone interesting on
working on the code for this spec in the next release cycle, and
implement it.

Matt
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