Gardening Open Docs

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A case study of MDN shows concrete systems and results: a homegrown Django backend called Kuma serves 10,000+ English documents with about 1,000 editors per month and ~800 active volunteers. Tooling includes automatic monitoring, a prioritization matrix, a status dashboard (area health and flags), a wiki linter, and generation of skeletons from specs. A navigation change for Spanish API pages reveals missing translations and invites contributions, demonstrating practical fixes that actually work.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:35What is Gardening Open Docs
3. 4:35Writing and maintaining a large set of documentation
4. 9:16Invasiveness
5. 11:06Planning
6. 13:28Navigation
7. 24:08Outro

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