Re: "I don't feel authoritative enough to change such an important page"

[Jennifer Zickerman]

This is relevant to my interests. :)

I'm working on improving the on-boarding docs on MDN (the "documentation
about how to write documentation"). When complete, I intend to have a
landing page that links to various MDN "how-to" references, which I hope
will give people the confidence to update MDN. I was thinking that we
can modify our bug triage efforts by adding a link to the landing page
in the bug comments, encouraging / asking (NOT begging - I have my
pride) people to go ahead and be brave do the docs. It will be a little
repetitive and spammy for people's bugmail, so I'd appreciate folk's
feedback on whether this is a good idea.


jen.

On 12-10-06 10:02 AM, David Bruant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On bug 14869. The same person said
> [1] "Can you update
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/element.getElementsByTagName ?"
>
> [2] "I don't feel authoritative enough to change such an important page
> / doc as I do not have the needed knowledge."
>
> I think this is representative of why we still don't have a lot of
> contributors popping up on MDN. There is still this feeling of sacred
> documentation. I don't know what to do to change that, but I wish I could.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> David
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14869#c56
> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14869#c58
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[Ali Spivak]

I agree -we need to make sure MDN is more welcoming and it is easier to find how to contribute information that is encouraging. I want to add links to the new content to the main "community" menu as well...

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