[Bf-docboard] Upcoming Wiki Team

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On 02/09/12 02:03, mindrones wrote:

> I've seen your contributions in the review page, I was just waiting for
> the process to be ready to contact you.
> Please have still a bit of patience, and keep on working :) we'll review
> all the contribs soon.

No worries, I'm no hurry. There's plenty to keep me occupied.

> As for proof reading, it would be fantastic to have a team of mother
> tongue people to check that too, but I'm afraid it's difficult to achive
> that on such a big manual.
>
> We can discuss this though and include that too in the public call we'll
> do soon.
>
> Any idea how to find and motivate people on that?
>
I agree, a team of proof readers is probably wishing for a bit too much 
at this point. Most of my contributions so far have been mostly proof 
reading type stuff whilst I learn about blender and the wiki. I'm happy 
to keep doing this for as long as possible as it'll probably be a while 
before I can competently contribute to the more advanced functions. 
Unfortunately, that's going to make my next suggestion seem a little 
self-serving (not intentionally I swear! ;) )

One way to get more proof reading type corrections could be to exempt 
these from review. Since these sort of edits are going to be based on 
standard language/grammar rules, the folks who notice the mistakes are 
going to make the appropriate corrections and shouldn't really need a 
review (one assumes). It also avoids a situation where native speakers 
have to get their language corrections reviewed by non-native speakers 
(which seems a little silly and inefficient).

Plus it also lowers the barrier for entry for new contributors by 
keeping parts of the wiki open, which should hopefully encourage more 
people to get involved.

Another idea might be to have a targeted approach to fixing sections. 
e.g have a month of modifiers or something, where we encourage people to 
write, review and proof a group of related pages.

As for recruiting people, are you going to put the request out to areas 
outside the mailing list e.g. blenderartists, blendernation etc?

Cheers
Fade