wiki vs documentation

[Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com> wrote:
> There are two areas of the wiki system, https://help.ubuntu.com/ and
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community The former is looked after by the doc
> team, the latter is maintained by the community.

Just to be clear here, everything is "maintained by the community" -
just slightly different communities :)

You have System Documentation community (this is what we are calling
"official documentation"):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation

Anyone can submit a Merge Proposal (MP) to the documentation, but they
do need to be familiar with the tools in order to do this. There is
then a core team who reviews and merges these changes.

And you have the wiki community: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Wiki

Anyone can edit the help.ubuntu.com/community wiki and there is no
direct review of content that is added, so the Wiki Admins like Phill
are in charge of handling administrative tasks on the wiki
(move/redirect obsolete pages, etc) and are also often the ones who
add tags. Some day it would be nice to see more growth here so there
are enough people to tag and improve documentation on a better
cadence.

Anyone in the world can join both these teams if they go through the
appropriate processes for joining (typically a time-based commitment
and proof that you have the technical knowledge in that specific
area).

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