[Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-documentation] De-geeking BugReport on Wiki

[Sophie Gautier]

Hi all,

Sorry for the wrong empty mail to you only Tom, I was on my phone.
On 16/02/2013 21:18, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :) wrt coloured backgrounds a pale yellow often helps some people
> with dyslexia.  So, i kinda like the simplicity of green for users,
> amber for more technical pages or internal pages such as minutes of
> meetings and then perhaps white writing on red for devs but i think
> it could easily get really bad visually.
> 
> Actually i like Sophie's point about the Documentation Team being
> responsible for wiki's in the documentation section and other teams
> being in charge of their's. 

I didn't said exactly that or didn't formulate it clearly. What I mean
is that if you work on another section, you should make the team (and
the i18n community behind) that you are doing modification on their pages.
I understand your point on simplifying the language for the user, but we
also want contributors. For that we need to simplify the entries, but
also to educate them to our vocabulary, the roles in the community and
the workflows. For me hiding everything behind a general wording is not
the way to educate people or we should manage a step where he get the
knowledge of how things are working in the community and feel include in
that process. It's also, most of the time, picking his interest because
he has known something of how it works at the end of the day.

 If we did go that route then everything
> aimed at normal users could be in the documentation section,
> preferably as sub-sub-sub-pages off the Published page. Unfortunately
> that would mean moving a lot of pages.

Hum, the documentation project has a very important purpose that is
providing documentation and recruiting volunteers for this purpose.
I can't imagine that somebody willing to help with QA, l10, whatever
will go under the documentation project for this (and most of other
production os project are organized the same). There is already the BSA
for the user who just want to fill a bug. If he wants to go further and
speaks English, he will go on the QA project pages and will try to learn
more about it, after either on the list or irc.
The best, in my personal opinion, would be that the documentation
project redesign the home page of the wiki whit the marketing list and
the projects list to make it contributor friendly.

Kind regards
Sophie