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Wordsmith is the new title that will be given to those who volunteer to install WordPress for friends or family as part of the Install WordPress for a Friend promotional campaign.

Project Outline

Purpose

Install WordPress for a Friend is designed to:

1. Promote WordPress.
2. Encourage users.
3. Create a "community" of volunteers who help WordPress users.
4. Recognize "wordsmiths" as volunteers who help WordPress users install and develop WordPress blogs and sites.

Description

Using a link in their Wordpress sites, such as <a href="http://example.com" rel="wordsmith">Joe Example</a>, a WordPress "spider" would go out and spider the home page URLs from the support forums database and look for the rel="wordsmith" links. This information would then be added to the Profile Page of a user on the WordPress Support Forum. It is a "gameable" technique and a "scorecard" on the user's Forum Profile Pages will be kept to monitor the number of "points" for such links as an official wordsmith.

Tasks

By the time the developers have finished the development of the spider and made changes to the WordPress Forum, the following tasks must be completed:

• Update and check related WordPress Codex Documentation.
  • All documentation related to Installs and Getting Started With WordPress
  • Troubleshooting
  • FAQ
  • Upgrading WordPress
• Prepare Support_Forum_Volunteers for information on installs.
• Prepare Support_Forum_Volunteers for information on how to answer questions about this project on the forums.
• Prepare the schedule below for promotional activities.

Schedule

November Release

• Project Coding
• Project Specifications and Instructions
• Promotional Campaign Begins