Contributing to the PrestaShop documentation
Just like PrestaShop itself, this documentation site (and its content) is open to everyone for suggestions, ideas and modifications!
All you need is to have your user-account validated by the administrators, and to follow the guidelines.
Who we need
- Proofreaders. Mistakes happen! When pages of pages of documentation are being written, there is always a possibility that a typo might be typed, a word forgotten, or a homonym used when it should not be. Even proofreaders might miss mistakes, so the more the merrier! Being an open-source project, we like to keep Linus' Law in effect (read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27_Law#By_Eric_Raymond)!
- Translators. Even though the PrestaShop tool is mostly written by French developers, we have decided to write our documentation primarily in English so as to stay open to as many foreign cultures as possible. Hence, we are always glad to welcome new translators for languages that are lacking documentation – especially the ones in which the main site is translated: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Portuguese.
- Writers. If you feel the current documentation lacks pages on a specific topic... Well, here's your chance!
Do you feel up for it? Contact us!
The documentation website is actually a wiki. Therefore, anyone with an account can edit it at will. The catch is that you have to have an account, obviously. Not everyone can have one with edit rights: we like to know who edits!
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Once you receive our confirmation e-mail, you can get to editing!
Priorities
Our priority is to fully document the current stable version of PrestaShop. That means v1.5.
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The documentation for v1.4 will be maintained for perpetuity, but will only receive updates for mistakes and typos. |
Guidelines
Wiki tool
This website is powered by Confluence, which is an excellent wiki software from Atlassian – which, incidentally, also edits Jira, the software behind PrestaShop's Forge.
It is therefore highly advisable to get better acquainted with its documentation before editing a page or submitting anything for review, especially how pages and sub-pages are handled and how to use the editor. Do not hesitate to search the Confluence documentation for specific keywords.
File attachments
In order to be retrieved easily by the editor, the image files should be attached to the target page.
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