{"id":70786,"date":"2018-08-02T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.dash.org\/uncategorized\/documentation-and-localization-at-dash\/"},"modified":"2021-09-23T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:02:29","slug":"documentation-and-localization-at-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.dash.org\/blog\/documentation-and-localization-at-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentation and localization at Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"
Everyone has that one friend or colleague who always needs help finding where they saved that important Word document, connecting to the printer or opening a ZIP file attached to an email. Thankfully, basic computer and internet skills like these have become increasingly widespread in recent years. But cryptocurrencies like Dash are relatively new entrants to the scene, and bring with them many confusing new concepts, terms and processes, many of which cannot be explained through familiar metaphors. The ongoing popularity of Amanda B. Johnson\u2019s Dash School<\/a> series shows the value in patiently presenting cryptocurrency concepts in a way accessible to users with different levels of skill and understanding. With this in mind, Dash Core Group began an effort in 2017 to improve our formal documentation, and in 2018 to offer quality translations of many of our products, with the goal of making common concepts and tasks in Dash accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n The Dash Documentation<\/a> aims to provide an easy point of entry to get started with Dash, regardless of your existing level of knowledge. It is structured around common tasks, and a great deal of the content was written in direct response to questions frequently asked on Dash social networks and chat groups. It is broken into four main sections:<\/p>\n The Dash Documentation has recently undergone a massive overhaul, with all pages and content revised into clear English and restructured to be oriented around tasks, rather than products. During this process, the entire platform was migrated from the legacy Atlassian Confluence system to a new home on the Read the Docs platform. Read the Docs<\/a> is a documentation hosting platform designed for open source software projects, and built using open source software. This alignment with our own open source software philosophy, as well as the added ability to support versioning, simple and automated import and export of content and thoughtfully designed localization processes helped us make the decision to switch to this popular documentation system as a best practice. Like our software products, all source files required to build the documentation are freely available<\/a> under an open source license on GitHub.<\/p>\n This video introduces the Dash Documentation platform in more detail:<\/p>\nDocumentation<\/h2>\n
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