Documentation Team

The Documentation Team provides the support for you — the community — to write great documentation. Although we love writing and updating documentation, the purpose of our team is to provide the TYPO3 community with the tools to improve documentation.  

This includes providing information about how to use those tools. We strongly encourage the community to get involved. If you want to start right now, skip to the Contribute section on this page!

Contact us

The best way to contact the Documentation Team is in the #typo3-documentation channel in TYPO3 Slack.

Slack Calls

The Documentation Team has regular Slack calls to talk about ongoing tasks. They also hold  joint online documenting sessions. Meetings are announced in the #typo3-documentation Slack channel. 

Become Part of the Documentation Team!

The Documentation Team provides the infrastructure and support to help the TYPO3 community write great documentation.

• Is documentation important to you?

• Do you want improve the technical infrastructure of the TYPO3 documentation?

• You like improving things?

• You want to help us in any way?

 Good documentation is important. You can contribute!

Contribute

If you do not wish to officially join the Documentation Team just yet, you can still contribute to the documentation.

Read more about the Documentation Contribution

Contribution Workflow

Did you know that contributing to the documentation has never been easier? That you are just one click away from starting a contribution yourself every time you visit a page on docs.typo3.org? Every official manual is contained in a GitHub repository and can be edited by anyone with a GitHub account. You can also edit a page directly on GitHub. All you need is a browser. If you are familiar with using Git and Docker, you can clone the repository and edit and render locally instead. 

Contribute now

Ways to Contribute

There are several ways to contribute and things you can do as a contributor:

• Look at How You can Help for ideas for contributions

• For individual projects, see Documentation Initiatives

• Long-term and continuous work on the documentation is important. Please consider joining the Documentation Team

• You can ask on Slack for things to do

Responsibilities of the Documentation Team

The Documentation Team provides the following:

• Information about how to write documentation

• Support via the #typo3-documentation Slack channel. We answer questions about writing documentation and using the tools

• Support the TYPO3 CMS Core Team and other teams in their documentation efforts

• Render official manuals and extensions on the documentation server docs.typo3.org via automated toolchain

• A Docker image for local rendering

• A theme

• Organize sprints for working on documentation related tasks

• Promote documentation work by writing on news.typo3.com, tweeting, and speaking at events

The following tasks were previously the responsibility of the documentation team and have now been redefined:

• Translation of manuals: The Documentation Team can help others in matters concerning workflow and tools, but it concentrates its efforts mainly on writing manuals in English.

• api.typo3.org: The technical infrastructure is handled by the Server Team.

• Writing content: Writing content is the responsibility of the TYPO3 community as a whole.

• Maintaining content: Content must be continuously updated and maintained. The long term goal is to put this in the hands of dedicated manual maintainers.