Difference between revisions of "Site copy team"

Revision as of 20:58, 16 February 2009

The site copy team is now accepting applications for membership. If you want to be considered, please follow the following steps:

Choose a page on the site (Pages needing cleaning may be useful; add http://www.rahaeli.hack.dreamwidth.org/ to the front of each URL and log in using the username/password that was posted to dw-docs) that you plan to update, and check that nobody else has claimed it (as we'll hopefully be using many of them, and duplicating effort is silly). Make sure it's something that has more than about three words of text.
Add your name to the list below.
Re-write the page you've chosen, from scratch. For now, just do it in a text editor, and don't worry about the site translation interface (which is what we'll be using to update the text). Pay special attention to our Manual of Style and our terminology, but within those guidelines, write the page the way you think it should be written. You can pretty much disregard existing text entirely.
Email your new version of the text to rho at rho@rho.me.uk, in plain text format only. Use the subject line "Dreamwidth Site Copy Team". Be aware that I may show the text to others within the Dreamwidth project, though I won't share your email address.

Anyone selected for the team who's going to have their text appear on site will have to sign a CLA.

Add yourself using the following template:

Name: LJ username (<ljuser>username</ljuser>;) or username on this wiki ([[user:username|]])
Interests and strengths: Things related to either Dreamwidth or to technical writing that you are particularly strong at or interested in, and would like to work on.
Weaknesses: Conversely, the stuff you're not as good at and would prefer to avoid.
Working on: Which page you're working on for the application. Make sure that this is one that nobody else has claimed!
CLA: Either "signed" or "unsigned". You don't need to have signed one at this point, but if you already have done, please note it here.

Strengths/Interests:
Weaknesses: I like big words too much. Also, I've been trained out of using contractions in formal writing, and have to work at them.
Working on: htdocs/community/create.bml
CLA: Signed

Strengths/Interests:
Weaknesses: I used to peruse the thesaurus when I was a kid, so I find myself going for the big words when minuscule ones will do.
Working on: htdocs/admin/console/index.bml
CLA: will scan and send once I find the scanner.

Strengths/Interests: Detail oriented. Copy-editing.
Weaknesses: I can be slow and get hung up on perfection. I have a tendency to overthink and over-explain.
Working on: htdocs/newuser.bml
CLA: Unsigned

Strengths/Interests: Lots of experience with explaining the basics.
Weaknesses: No experience with wiki-like projects (but I'll only need things explained once). I'm off-line on Fridays and Saturdays.
Working on: htdocs/styles/index.bml
CLA: signed, scanned, sent.

Strengths/Interests: lots of writing experience in a variety of styles. experience with using a spellchecker (because I can't spell).
Weaknesses: I like big words. I know nothing at all about this technology so there's a possibility i will introduce errors in my rewrites.
Working on: community/index.bml
CLA: Unsigned.

Strengths/Interests: Writing experience; vocabulary & grammar geek (actually, this may be a weakness);
Weaknesses: I like big words. Massive outside commitments (OTW, university).
Working on: openid/index.bml
CLA: Unsigned.

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 The site copy team is now accepting applications for membership. If you want to be considered, please follow the following steps:
-* Choose a page on the site ([[Pages needing cleaning]] may be useful; replace htdocs with http://www.rahaeli.hack.dreamwidth.org/ using username/password posted to dw-docs) that you plan to update, and check that nobody else has claimed it (as we'll hopefully be using many of them, and duplicating effort is silly). Make sure it's something that has more than about three words of text.
+* Choose a page on the site ([[Pages needing cleaning]] may be useful; add http://www.rahaeli.hack.dreamwidth.org/ to the front of each URL and log in using the username/password that was posted to dw-docs) that you plan to update, and check that nobody else has claimed it (as we'll hopefully be using many of them, and duplicating effort is silly). Make sure it's something that has more than about three words of text.
 * Add your name to the list below.
 * Re-write the page you've chosen, from scratch. For now, just do it in a text editor, and don't worry about the site translation interface (which is what we'll be using to update the text). Pay special attention to our [[Manual of Style]] and our [[terminology]], but within those guidelines, write the page the way ''you'' think it should be written. You can pretty much disregard existing text entirely.