Article submission and review

By gwoo (gwoo)
Here we attempt to explain the process of submitting articles and the process of reviewing the submissions.
We are psyched with the number of submissions that have come in and just want to let you know a little about the review process. All the articles submitted go under review by one of the team members. If the team has a comment on it, they will leave it unpublished and submit an Author PM in the comments section.

The Articles usually do not get strict scrutiny, but generally there are a few things that could be simplified or changed. Sometimes, we may even refer you to other samples that could help you on your quest for the perfect solution. Other times, we will just publish the article and let the community have at it. And there may even be times when we send you back to the drawing board.

The goal of this is to help raise the level of every community member. Those who submit articles receive the greatest return. Yeah, we know its like free training for authors, but hey thats what this is all about. More people having more fun with easier and simpler lives.

There is a lot of information out there on CakePHP. We hope bringing it to one place will make it easier to learn and extend CakePHP, while improving the quality of the code and recognition for authors.

Feedback welcomed. Keep an eye on your submissions.
dont forget to stop by #cakephp@irc.freenode.net, http://irc.cakephp.org

 

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1 Keep up the great work

This is truly inspiring. It gives me a lot of hope for Cake and the communitys future.
It is yet another step towards securing a high standard and quality in the MVC paradigm that CakePHP stands for!

Great Work!
Posted Oct 2, 2006 by Mufit Kiper
 

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2 Article Review is a Good Thing

The idea of reviewing an article before it's published is a great thing. It will definitely keep the quality of the content here very high. I mean, I posted an article called CakePHP vs Ruby on Rails and it wasn't approved, but I'm not mad or anything. That just tells me I need to work on it a bit more. Good work, guys.
Posted Oct 6, 2006 by Matt Bowden
 

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3 How can we help

I'm sure the influx of writers moving articles from the wiki and submitting new, sleaker documentation is overwhelming.

Would it be possible to list article titles/summaries of those currently in the review process, so we don't bog you down with resubmits?

I'm itching to write!
Posted Oct 16, 2006 by Tom OReilly
 

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4 Nice idea

@Tommy

good idea. We will try to work that in.
Posted Oct 17, 2006 by gwoo
 

Question

5 What about other languages

Hi,
As the english CakePHP Wiki moved on the Bakery since a few days, what will happen to the others wikis in other languages? Will they stay on the Wiki part of the site or will they be moved on the bakery too ?
Posted Oct 30, 2006 by Xavier
 

Question

6 Speeding up approval process

Guys,

Any idea how we can speed up the process of approving articles? Maybe a comunity voting of submitted articles (a la drupal)?

-MI
Posted Nov 27, 2006 by Mariano Iglesias