At WordCamp EU in Athens this year, I had the pleasure of joining the Documentation Team on Contributor day, lead by Melina Cap ( @zzap ). The Documentation Team was very welcoming and it allowed me to immediately jump right into working on real issues within the hour after reading some brief onboarding material.
The process of contributing to the Documentation Team is fairly straightforward, and anyone of any experience level can participate. As a matter of fact, people with no experience actually have an edge, as they can more easily find the gaps or mistakes in the documentation. All you need is a wp.org and a GitHub account. There is no need to "pull down", set up a repository, or have a dev environment setup; just start contributing by leaving comments with your edits and suggestions on the GitHub issue.
On that note, the WordPress Playground has launched, and you can now run WordPress in your browser, facilitating the process greatly.
So now that I was off to a great start and knew the process for contributing, I was able to update the screenshots and record some new video for two issues during the day.
When I returned from Athens, I joined the #docs WordPress Slack channel, and attended my first online documentation team meeting. (They are held every Tuesday, and every 4th meeting is an online contributor day.)
Since joining the team I have contributed to at least six issues, and I find it incredibly rewarding to finally be able to give back to the WordPress community.
If you would like to join the Documentation Team, be sure to check out the onboarding material here. If you would like to join any of the other WordPress contributor teams, be sure to check out make.wordpress.org.
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