All of the documentation for the Drupal Project is freely contributed by people all around the World, just like you.
Contributing to any large project requires collaboration between project members and the people and processes that make that a productive and enjoyable experience.
The Documentation Working Group is the central body that:
- Maintains policies, processes, and guidelines for documentation
- Highlights priorities for Drupal documentation
- Recruits members of the Drupal community to write and edit documentation
- Suggests tool changes (Drupal.org software) to improve the experience of people who read and write documentation
As collaboration on contribution to Drupal is such an integral part of the community, there are many ways to communicate with others doing the same and to learn from them:
- Instant messaging tools, such as Slack (sign up, then join channel(s) #documentation) and DrupalChat.me (sign up, then join channel(s) #general).
- The Documentation group on groups.drupal.org has forums and announcements.
- Issues -- use issues, not the documentation group, to communicate about actionable items (things that can be acted upon and completed, such as problems with a specific Documentation page, a need for reorganization, etc.):
- If you find a problem with a specific page in the Drupal community documentation, you can always edit the page to fix it.
- If you do not know how to fix the page, do not have time, or want to discuss a larger problem or propose a major change to the Drupal Community documentation, you can use the Documentation issue queue. Here are the details about how to use the Documentation issue queue.
- Issues related to documentation embedded in the core of Drupal itself are discussed in the main Drupal issue queue, under the "documentation" and "user interface text" components,.
- Many meet-ups and Drupal events, like DrupalCamps and DrupalCons, have "Contribution Days" or "Sprints".
- Follow drupaldocs on Twitter, and tweet to @drupaldocs.
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Visit the Community landing page to learn more about the Drupal community, or start at the top of the Contributor Guide to find roles and tasks organized by skills and community areas.
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