Ubuntu Documentation Websites Launched

[mattheweast]

The Ubuntu Documentation Team is proud to announce two websites which we hope will become the starting point for users learning how to use Ubuntu.

* http://help.ubuntu.com *

This website will host the stable documentation released with Ubuntu. It includes the comprehensive Ubuntu Starter Guide, the About Ubuntu document and the Ubuntu Quick Tour, as well as some other documents.

Shortly we hope to add some Kubuntu documentation, translations, and other guides pulled from the Ubuntu wiki which we consider to be stable and reliable documents.

* http://doc.ubuntu.com *

This website is our home base. It will detail how to get involved in the docteam, link to our important wiki pages, and most importantly, host previews of our work in progress. There are no previews there yet, as work for dapper has not yet begun in earnest, but there will be!

We hope that these pages will be a welcome addition to your bookmarks!!

thanks,

the Doc Team!

[asimon]

This is great news. Kudos to the hardworking doc team.

Shortly we hope to add some Kubuntu documentation, translations, and other guides pulled from the Ubuntu wiki which we consider to be stable and reliable documents.

But why isn't all the documentation put into the wiki? Wouldn't that make it easier for everyone to contribute?

[mattheweast]

I'm afraid that putting distro-documentation into the wiki and allowing everyone to edit it would not be workable. We try and make it as easy as possible for people to contribute, see http://doc.ubuntu.com, but it is not practicable to allow everyone to access our documentation. We have an access controlled repository, just like all documentation teams and all distro teams do.

Having said that, we also work on the wiki and use it to improve our work.

Matt

[az]

In "How to contribute" you do not mention the UserDocumentation page....

[mattheweast]

That is kind of intentional. The UserDocumentation wiki page should not really be edited by users who are just starting to get used to the wiki. The page is intended to link documents which are the "finished article". See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiGuide