OpenOffice.org Docs and LinuxTag
LinuxTag in Berlin this year was an interesting event, and well attended. The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project did a presentation on Friday (30 May) to introduce the Documentation Project to those that have not really heard much about us, and to encourage people to participate. Some highlights of the presentation:
- The Documentation project objectives are to:
- Make it easy for users to access documentation.
- Make sure the content is targeted.
- Make sure that the documentation is up to date and technically accurate.
- The Application help is currently more than 2300 XML files containing over 400,000 words and localized in around 100 languages.
- The Documentation Wiki is getting around 500,000 page views per month (and this number is increasing each month), and makes up 20% of the total OpenOffice.org Wiki traffic.
- Challenges to using the Wiki include, a lack structure, a lack of a defined workflow, and no established editorial process.
- New things are coming to the Wiki such as the ability to build PDF books based on Wiki pages, and maybe even ODT documents as well.
So, what can the OpenOffice.org community in general do to help out the Documentation Project? Contribute to the Wiki documentation! This can be anything from adding new articles or examples, to spelling corrections. The great thing about the documentation being in the Wiki is that anyone can make a correction or add new information, and that correction or new information is seen immediately. If you see a problem in a document, but do not have the solution, use the Wiki Discussion page to enter your comment, or raise a question on the dev@documentation.openoffice.org mailing list.