The online Blender documentation is in need of a thorough cleanup and the documentation team is asking for your help.
Greg Zaal writes:
t's no secret that the manual is a big mess and contains lots of outdated information and screenshots left over from the 2.4 era. Some sections do nothing more than tell you the same basic info you found in the tooltip, or simply don't have any information about the tool at all because nobody ever bothered to write anything.
All of those problems inherently come from a user manual that is written by many people, some less experienced than others. Developers often have to document their features themselves, but we all know that they have much more important things to do.
But this is where you come in!
We're looking for anyone who'd like to help us out in whatever capacity they like, be it fixing a single spelling mistake, or documenting every missing compositing node ;-)
Continue reading on BlenderArtists to see how you can help.
5 Comments
writing manuals and help is part of development and very important! and as a developer I would not be contributing for this reason, you make a mess, you clean it up!
Probably not best way to phrase it, you're not the only person to comment on that part, replied here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?360263-Blender-User-Manual-Official-Call-for-Help!&p=2802978&viewfull=1#post2802978
and, what are you paying? lol, that's the important part.
I can contribute suggesting to use my shortcuts map http://www.giudansky.com/design/51-blender-map
As a technical writer and Blender user I feel I should be involved, but on reading how to get involved it seems to have been made far too geeky for any casual 'helpers' to get involved. On the Blender artists thread:
"I know at first glance it seems like a ridiculously convoluted technical challenge to set up, but it's something you only have to do once and should take less than half an hour. Once you're ready, it's a simple matter of editing text files."
Precisely. Why isn't it as easy as e-mailing the documentation team to offer your help, they give you a personal login, and then you can edit any page in a browser-based Wikipedia-style editor?