Introduction, First Wiki Edit

Nio Wiklund nio.wiklund at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 05:43:04 UTC 2017


Den 2017-08-18 kl. 00:30, skrev Dave Kokandy:
> Greetings, Documentation Team -
> 
> I'm trying to get back to being involved with the Ubuntu project after a
> few years away and have just joined the Ubuntu Wiki Editors team. I hope
> that I can be of service to the effort.
> 
> Anyway, one of the things the getting started guide said was to discuss
> your contributions on the docteam mailing list, so I thought I would just
> report my first edit at least for the purpose of gathering feedback on the
> changes.
> 
> This lowhanging page - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Nano - had three
> tags on it, Style, Unsupported, and NeedsUpdating. I removed many of the
> obviously obsolete references and brought some of the content to be more in
> accordance with the WritingGuide, but the bulk of the article still seemed
> to be accurate so I left it mostly untouched.
> 
> So I wonder:
> 
>     - Based on these changes, was I right to remove the tags or do you think
>     additional revision was required?
>     - Would you have updated the screenshot? And if so, would you use Unity
>     since that is the current default DE, or would it be good to use GNOME for
>     the future?
>     - Do you have any other feedback on this first attempt?
> 
> Thanks for your time and consideration, and if anyone else is working on
> the wiki actively please let me know what the current major goals are,
> otherwise I'll start by trying to fix the tagged pages.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave Kokandy
> 

Hi Dave,

I'm a peripheral person in this group. I think the nano help page looks 
good now, after your edits :-)

But I don't know the policy about tags and screenshots, so let us wait 
for feedback from someone with more experience.

Best regards
Nio



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