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How to build a documentation culture

James.Scott on October 07, 2019

Some of you probably don’t like writing documentation, most of you might even hate it. Writing docs often seems to be treated like the annoying but...
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Ann Lewkowicz

Where did those awesome stickers come from? 😊

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James.Scott

Those were from the Write the Docs conference in Portland.

The sticker design is in a public repo if you wanted to order some from Sticker Mule or similar: github.com/writethedocs/resources/...

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Ari Kalfus

The Write the Docs URL is mangled - htts//writethedocs.org is what appears for me. Great article, though. Documentation is so important.

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James.Scott

Thanks Ari! Missed the ‘p’... and this is why peer review is important for docs!

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JeffD • Edited

"chocolate bars for developers who helped me with documentation" I love this ! Great post !

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Dule Martins

Awesome article, will really love to be a writer but have no tried it before.

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James.Scott

Thanks Dule! Just take the time and effort to write good documentation for things you develop (even the small things like the code comments and the error messages) and then you basically are a part-time writer :)