About and how to use wiki tasks page

When blender.org announces a Blender Release, the Wiki User Manual should be updated, possibly in many languages.

In order to coordinate wiki authors, we gather todos derived from Release Notes in Meta:Wiki Tasks.

Also, please edit the wiki tasks page if you find missing parts in the manual but you cannot fix yourself.

Note that Tutorials are not considered in the wiki tasks page.

Workflow

At release time:

Update this Template: Template:Blender/Current version.
Create the page “Meta:Wiki Tasks/Blender 2.5x” (complete with appropriate version, for example “2.51”).
List each todo, preceded by the appropriate Wikitask template. you can use:
- to do
  (doc).
- on hold
  (doc).
- in progress 0%
  (doc).
- done
  (doc).

An author/contributor interested in a certain section then should:

Communicate with docboard mailing list to avoid clashing with other authors.
Change the todo template near the page he’s interested in to “Inprogress”, adding his Sign.
Write all the needed sandbox pages, following the writer guide and the style guide.

Example

Turn

{{WikiTask/Todo|[[Doc:Manual/Foo]]}},

which shows as

to do

into {{WikiTask/Inprogress|20|--~~~~|link=Meta:Sanbox/Doc:Manual/Foo}},

which shows as

in progress

20%

--mindrones 17:14, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Note that with “link” you can point the progress bar to the appropriate sandbox page (hover the mouse over the progressbar image and see).

After the preparation in sandbox, an author should:

Find general consensus in docboard mailing list about inclusion in official Manual of his or her own work.
Update the Manual following the current structure, see also these editing guidelines.
Update wikitasks page changing “Inprogress” template with “Onhold” template.