It's been a busy month in Drupal documentation land. Here's an update from the Documentation Working Group (DocWG) on what has been happening in Drupal Documentation in the last month or so. Sorry... because this is posted in the Core group as well as Documentation, comments are disabled.

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Notable Documentation Updates

(pages or sections that have been worked on recently, see notes below)

See the DocWG home page for how to contact us, if you'd like to be listed here in our next post!

Thanks for contributing!

(list of how many people have made updates in the last month, and the top few contributors, see notes below)

Since July 15th (our previous TMIDD post), 234 contributors have made 705 total Drupal.org documentation page revisions, including 4 people that made more than 30 edits -- thanks everyone!

Extra big shout-out to these contributors.

• lolandese (111 revisions)
• Wim Leers (49 revisions)
• jhodgdon (41 revisions)
• Francewhoa (30 revisions)

In the core issue queue there's been a lot of movement to improve in-line documentation as we continue to get closer to a release of Drupal 8. This patch to improved the TypedData documentation is a great example of the kind of work that's being done. https://www.drupal.org/node/2548279

In addition, there were many many commits to Drupal Core and contributed projects that improved documentation -- these are hard to count, because many commits combine code and documentation -- but they are greatly appreciated too!

Documentation Priorities

The Current documentation priorities page is always a good place to look to figure out what to work on, and has been updated recently.

Work on the Drpual 8 User Guide is moving along splendidly. We had two IRC meetings in the last month and the level of involvement has been great. Helping with this documentation is a great way to get started with documentation and to learn a bit about Drupal 8 while you're at it. The focus right now is on writing a first draft of each of the topics in the guide, and work is also underway to figure out a final home for the new guide in https://www.drupal.org/node/2522024. Follow https://groups.drupal.org/documentation for announcements and join us for our next IRC meeting.

If you're new to contributing to documentation, these projects may seem a bit overwhelming -- so why not try out a New contributor task to get started?

The Drupal Association staff have recently updated their 2015 roadmap and it currently includes a couple of big wins for documentation. Including work to convert sections of the community documentation into a more maintainable format. The issue here https://www.drupal.org/node/2533684 doesn't have a lot of information soon, but keep on eye on it. And/or watch this recording of the presentation from DrupalCon LA about the work being done on content strategy for Drupal.org to get an idea of what's coming. https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/content-strategy-drupa...

Upcoming Events

• DrupalCon Barcelona, Spain, 21-25 September, with a session Let's talk about documentation and a documentation sprint on Drupal 8 documentation and the D8 User Guide. Please sign up for the sprint! Members of the DocsWG will be in attendence at DrupalCon and would love to chat with you about your ideas for improving Drupal's documentation or to help you find ways to get involved so come say hello anytime during the week.

If you're attending or helping to organize a Drupal event that will feature a documentation related sprint, or sessions let us know and we'll get it added to the list.

Report from the Working Group

We just recently had our regular monthly meeting, though it had actually been over a month since the last time we met. We didn't have a whole lot to discuss in that period, and had been putting a lot of time and effort into getting the Drupal 8 User Guide project underway. At our last meeting the big thing that came up was the need to develop a clear set of guidelines for when it is appropriate to delete a comment from either the community documentation or the api.drupal.org documentation. https://www.drupal.org/node/2515002. We've jotted down some ideas and plan to discuss this further at our next meeting in September. Afer which we'll post the ideas we've come up with for consideration before making anything official. Let us know in the issue if you've got any thoughts about what this should look like.