Documentation

Contributing to documentation is an excellent way to support the Drupal project, even if you are a beginner. In fact, beginners have a distinct advantage over the experts, because they can more easily spot the places where documentation is lacking. Here is an interesting article that discusses the question Why Do People Write Free Documentation.

• To keep up on what the Documentation team is doing and various ways you can jump in, take a look at the Documentation Team group and sign up for the RSS feed.
• If you use documentation, you can also improve it as you go by filing issues or posting comments to handbook pages. Read more about quick and simple ways to help improve documentation.
• Join the documentation team if you would like to work on more substantial tasks, such as editing existing handbook pages and handling tasks in our issue queue. The documentation handbooks are written in HTML and use the Drupal Book module, which provides easy wiki-like editing functionality, allows the content to be easily organized, and automatically generates a navigation block.