Strategies to fight documentation inertiaΒΆ
| Authors: | Britta Gufstafson |
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| Time: | 12:00 - 12:20 |
| Session: | http://docs.writethedocs.org/2014/na/talks/#britta-gustafson-strategies-to-fight-documentation-inertia |
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Worked on reviving volunteer documentation wiki with a little social engineering and friendliness. The wiki for years had an outdated tagline, and didn’t link to the great content that was actually there. Now it contains explicit call-outs to getting started, beginner information, and entry points that people coming to the community may be interested in.
Britta joined Cydia as a community manager, and tried to push engineers towards updating the wiki. After getting involved in Open Hatch, she realized that she actually did have something to contribute to the wiki and to the documentation.