Everyone

1. Start Contributor Day

If you attend this Contributor Day, please comment below with your WordPress.org username.

2. Start contributing

When you find the issue you'd like to work on (take a look at the list below), please leave a comment on that issue so that we can assign you and avoid more people working on the same issue. If you know which docs the project issue belongs to, you can tag the project rep as well.

3. You'll probably need WordPress

For a quick fresh WordPress install, you can use WordPress Playground by going to https://playground.wordpress.net/

New contributors

If this is your first time contributing to the Documentation team, please make sure you have the following accounts:

WordPress.org account.
WordPress Slack account (wordpress.org account is needed).
GitHub account – connect your GitHub account to your WordPress.org profile.

Make sure you join #docs Slack channel. Once there, just wave :)

The following videos/onboarding sessions can be helpful for performing the tasks we plan to work on:

For general details on how GitHub works, check out GitHub’s Getting Started Guide.

When you find issue you'd like to work on in the Docs Team Issue Tracker here on GitHub:

Please leave a comment in that issue so that we can assign you and to avoid more people working on the same issue, and
In that comment, also be sure to tag the team rep responsible for the handbook that your chosen task is about.

For example, if your task is for the Block Editor End-User documentation, you would tag @Leonardus-Nugraha.

Check out the Team page in the Documentation Team Handbook for a list of team reps.