There appears to be a mistake in the Getting Started Guide, Getting Started With Writer

I will start with the text:
You can install additional dictionaries using Get more dictionaries online at the bottom of Tools > Language > Writing Aids dialog.

I am not sure what the objective is, but, I think the correct version should be:
You can install additional dictionaries using the link Get more dictionaries online at the bottom of Tools > Options > Languages and Locales.
There may be an alternative interpretation, but, it is a very different approach:
Tools > Language > More Dictionaries Online … opens up the same dialog box, but both are different paths.

The two possibilities that open the same dialog box are:

  1. Tools > Options > Languages and Locales > Writing aids, where the link at the bottom of the dialog opens the extra dictionaries dialog.

  2. Tools > Language > More Dictionaries Online …, which opens the same dialog.

Either way, the text in English does not coincide with either of the possibilities.

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Thanks. I don’t know whether the interface has changed or the guide was always incorrect, but I’ll add the correct menu paths and improve the wording in that passage.

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Some time ago I made some notes with Getting Started Guide 24.8 mistakes.
I have seen that in the preface to Vesion 25.2 (Page 11 - Note on extensions of icons) it has not been corrected.
I do not know if the rest of the mistakes have been reviewed and are corrected or not.

The message about GS Guide’s mystakes is this:

This demonstrates a guide maintenance workflow problem. Nothing in the current workflow refers to any problems identified in the guides, there is no register of guide problems, and any notes are deleted after a guide is produced.

I consider losing these contributions which take hours to identify (collectively hundreds of hours) is a significant failing of the group.

Contributors_Guide

(Being revised)

Surely it should be expected that guides are revised and whatever is in published documents is the process.

Hi flywire

The wiki pages are obsolete as indicated in the beginning of the page.

We have implemented a new process using a Kanban-like tool in the TDF Nextcloud instance, named “Deck”. We are able to monitor and control the update process in a more effective manner.

The process is detailed in Managing Guide Production Tasks with Nextcloud Deck - The Document Foundation Wiki thanks to Dione Maddern ( @Twistappel ).

We are also discussing changes in the editing process to make it simpler. Once we set a new process, we will bring it to the wiki.

But let me remind that the LibreOffice documentation depends on the availability of volunteers.

Not every volunteer has proficiency to improve the Guides, and to comply with our editing practices. There is a significant ramp-up effort to get knowledgeable in editing, get savvy on the software features and have good English writing.

Feel free to join our efforts, we have a weekly meeting every Friday at 15:00 UTC on jitsi to coordinate at our activities.

Cheers
Olivier

Thanks @ohallot.

1am is for sleeping.

Two things I’d like to see adopted:

  1. Register of documentation issues including bug reports, ask forum, and other sources.
  2. Retain comments contributed to guides as part review process. It can take hundreds of hours of working through detailed tutorials, learning, crosschecking, researching and considering instructions and GUIs. This effort cannot be repeated for each version, especially for something like Base with few changes over time that still contains errors ideally picked up with fresh eyes.