The June 2014 WebPlatform Quality Assurance Sprint!

Hello everyone,

If you read these emails regularly, you know that there have been a number
of infrastructure activities going on in order to get
webplatform.orglooking professional and ready for public consumption,
so that we can
remove the big purple "*Web Platform Docs is in alpha
<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:FAQ>*" warning that is currently on
the top of every page.

A key part of this is the new article-by-article readiness marker system,
so that we can clearly indicate to readers which individual pages still
need work and which are ready to use.  We currently have the templates in
place [1], and Jen Simmons is working on adding some style to make the
information part of the layout instead of a warning box [2].

However, for all that to mean anything we need to assign a readiness state
to each an every article.  Currently there are 4408 articles showing up in
my search of pages that use the readiness template [3], of which 4405 are
"Unreviewed".

In the weekly teleconferences, it was agreed that the best approach was to
do this was to divide the articles up among regular contributors (people
who are familiar with the content expectations and the structure of the
site), and assign readiness states manually.

*If you can participate, please add your name to the list on the QA Sprint
project page:*

*http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Projects/June2014_QA_Sprint
<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Projects/June2014_QA_Sprint>*

(Note that I've already signed up the "usual suspects", so you might want
to check and remove your name if you're busy all June!)

At the same time as the readiness review, since we don't want to do this
again any time soon, we would also want to take care of any other clean-up
tasks that need to be done manually by someone familiar with the site.

We therefore need to decide on a checklist of Quality Assurance tasks.
 These have to be simple, quick assignments that someone can do without any
additional research, and which will make a meaningful improvement to the
consistency and reliability of the site content.  So far we have:

*The QA Checklist for June 2014 QA Sprint:*
1. Assign a readiness state. More about readiness states (requires clean-up)
2. Add any details about readiness/what is required to the editorial notes
box.
3. For DOM method pages, assign index values to the parameter entries in
order to get the correct syntax to display, as described in this email post.
4. Confirm that the new compatibility tables are pulling in the correct
data (Doug Schepers is going to give us more information about this once
the import from MDN happens later this week).

Possible additions (if we have enough volunteers that we can afford to
spend more time per page):
1. Ensure that every page has a summary section.

I've added a couple other sections and ideas to that project page [4], but
everything else is still pretty tentative.  Ideas and initiative welcome --
I'm not going to have time to do much extra work on this myself, but we
wanted to get the ball rolling sooner rather than later.

Best,
Amelia

[1]:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2014May/0061.html
[2]:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2014May/0056.html
[3]: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Property:State
[4]: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Projects/June2014_QA_Sprint