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[Mike Belanger]

There has been earlier calls for volunteers.  But many lose interest for a
variety of reasons.

You can sandbox pages in your own user directory for the time being, if
there's a particular part
you wish to start documenting now.

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Raindrops From Sky <
raindrops.fromsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow. That page practically asks everyone to hold their horses till SOMEONE
> decides about the strategy.
> This is bewildering, indeed! Nowhere else is this policy declared.
>
> Here are some logical places where a volunteer starts:
> 1. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual
> 2. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page
> 3. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Guides/Writer_Guide
>
> All of them ask the volunteers to go ahead and copy the 2.49 pages into 2.5
> and edit them!
> Naturally they will go ahead! (I was thinking of doing the same).
>
> If that policy has changed recently, those pages should have been modified.
> A flashing message should be put so that new volunteers would wait till a
> decision comes out.
> ***
> BTW that page is part of wiki, which can be edited by ANYONE.
> (In fact, I just added my own potato there :) )
> So is that the official policy of BF, or just a thought put forward by some
> intellectuals?
> How do we settle it?
>
> In general, how are decisions taken at BF? What is the process?
> The Blender site does not explain that at all.
>
> Is there a project for freezing the wiki-related policy?
> By what date will we know the outcome?
>
> And is the Blender Foundation recruiting paid/unpaid volunteers of various
> types for these tasks?
> For example, coder-writers (to document APIs), illustrators (for drawings),
> modelers/animators/artists (to prepare example models). etc?
>
> I didn't see any call for volunteers at Blenderartists, BlenderNation,
> etc..
> Maybe we need a SURGE in this area!
>
> -Raindrops
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 09/14/2010 01:39 PM, Raindrops From Sky wrote:
>>  > Is there a core group already thinking of starting on the wiki?
>>
>> yes there are plans about automating things later when the api will
>> stabilize a bit.
>>
>> There has been discussion about this in March 2010.
>> Have a read at
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/Wiki/Proposals/2010
>> (see the section "Wiki reference the 2.5 way, semi-automatic").
>>
>> Apart from having a big list in text format, there is more work to do,
>> like doing appropriate templating in wiki to integrate things in a
>> proper reference, to be used by wiki writers. The goal is to let people
>> use templates to input shortcuts and screenshots instead of typing
>> things manually (or copypasting from a txt) so that updating a single
>> template changes the whole wiki according to the correct blender version.
>>
>> My personal plan is to discuss this at the conference before doing any
>> heavy changes in wiki.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Luca
>>
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