We are moving away from the "old" wiki at docs.joomla.org. In this sandbox you can help building that new documentation. 

For the developers manual for Joomla, see https://manual.joomla.org/. You can do a pull request to the Github repository to improve or enhance the developers documentation.

This sandbox is meant for contributions to the user documentation. You can find the current documentation under "User Manual" in the top menu. We are reorganising the menu, so it will have a more logical structure, instead of the current alphabetical listing.

Translations

At the moment you don't find translations of the user manual on this site. That is deliberately left out for now, as we first want to focus on the content and only display the core text in English. If you want to see translations of this manual, please look at JDocManual, made by Cliff Ford, where translations of the current user manual can be found in eight languages besides English (German, Italian, Russian, Brasilian Portuguese, Portugese, Dutch, Spanish and French). Those translations were provided by automatic, AI-assisted translation, possibly with human review afterwards. That will probably be the way we will do translations of the documentation in the future. If you want translation in another language, you could use Chrome browser to translate the pages (use "Translate..." in the Chrome menu).

Origin

The content of the current user manual is composed of articles that were originally in our wiki at docs.joomla.org. Two years ago they were migrated to Github Markdown and used as basis for JDocManual (a Joomla extension using documents in a Git repository) and Docs-Next (also using a GitHub repository as basis, but rendered with Docusaurus, like the developers manual does). The content of JDocManual was updated after that migration. For our user manual on this site we used the content of JDocManual as our base. In this site all content is managed with core Joomla, hence the name "docs-core". The idea is to make the documentation a nice showcase of the possibilities of Joomla.

Help wanted

Your help to improve and enhance the documentation is needed and very much appreciated! We are working on it to make contributions to the user manual as easy as possible. This is the current procedure to do that:

• Sign up for an account for this site. Under "Contributors" you'll find "Create an account".
• Go to the "Documentation Suggestions" channel on Mattermost and ask for author-rights for your account. You can always go back to this channel for any questions or consultation about the documentation.
• Under  "Jobs to do" you'll find a list of things that need to be done for the user manual. We are still working on that list.
• Under "Contributors" you'll find a tutorial about how to make a tutorial.
• If you want to contribute to the user manual, log in with your author-account under "Contributors" and create a new article.

Hope to see you on Mattermost and on our Pizza, Bugs & Fun on February 22. Thank you!

License

All contributions to the documentation are covered by the Joomla! Electronic Documentation License.