History of Writing guide for Knowledge Base articles

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Unreviewed   Abby update for upcoming style guide changes
Current   AliceWyman updated link to renamed article
Approved M AliceWyman Article categories, other small edits
Approved MT Kiki adding conjunction and disclaimer, plus styling an example text with blockquote
Approved M Lucas Siebert Added guidelines on how to link to external documentation for third-party software
Approved M AliceWyman http->https; fixed capitalization error for "Editorial guidelines for Mozilla accounts" (bug 1867499)
Approved M AliceWyman Slug: small edits to pending revision
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Search summary, Slug: minor edits
Approved M AliceWyman Slug, Fix the slug: updated for existing articles
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Technical guidelines: added link for editing an existing article
Approved M Mozinet corrections and minor edits, and added a sample macOS keyboard shortcut
Approved   Lucas Siebert Minor markup fix
Approved M Lucas Siebert Approved by the Content Manager on Oct 4th/23
Approved   AliceWyman small edits to last revision
Unreviewed   JeremyKoozar Restructured first sentence under “Writing style” > “Images and video”; Capitalized first words in bulleted list/restructured some sentences under “Readability”; Restructured first sentence under “Write a good search summary".
Approved M AliceWyman Intro: added en-US to link for "this article's Discussion forum"
Approved   JeremyKoozar The examples listed below are initialisms not acronyms, updated to reflect this.
Unreviewed   Jessica Raymond Https not working proper
Approved M AliceWyman Intro: updated link to this article's Discussion forum
Approved   AliceWyman Title: avoid using "-ing" task names
Approved   AliceWyman Title: removed "and avoid using "-ing" words."
Approved M AliceWyman removed link to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/communications/copy-rules/ (no more Mozilla Style Guide)
Approved M John E Case Added the word "you" to a sentence under Keep it short, changed to links to https.
Approved M Fabi Updated to follow Mozilla's technical guidelines
Unreviewed   Fabi Updated to follow Mozilla's technical guidelines
Unreviewed   Fabi Technical guidelines and Style guide updated
Approved M Chris Ilias reverting to r200498 - rules changes shouldn't be approved without Joni's approval
Reviewed M Fabi Oxford comma
Unreviewed   Fabi Oxford comma
Approved M Erin S. Fixed grammatical errors and reworded sentences for a better flow.
Approved M AliceWyman "Readability" moved above Technical Guidelines, changed heading to level-2,
Approved   Steven Fixed bulletpoints which displayed incorrectly.
Approved M AliceWyman "Images and video" reworded
Approved   Angela Lazar fix typo
Approved M Angela Lazar Add about avoiding slang and idioms
Approved M Stacy add a readability tips
Reviewed M Stacy Adding some examples
Approved   AliceWyman Title: 65 characters
Unreviewed   gleb-urencev Updated the information. Some new features for text writing added. Pictures for titles examples added.
Approved M AliceWyman Style guide and copy rules: log in (same applies to sign in)
Approved M AliceWyman reworked Writing style sections
Approved M AliceWyman fixed internal link to #w_style-guide-and-copy-rules
Approved M AliceWyman resubmitted last revision, with edits (see discussion)
Reviewed M AliceWyman Language -> Style guide and copy rules; website vs web page, other edits
Approved M Joni version 1. This will evolve this quarter as the creative team helps us with more direction
Approved M AliceWyman Capitalization: added brand, product and feature names per https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/communications/copy-rules/
Approved M AliceWyman Capitalization: added wikipedia link for proper nouns and names. Removed outdated hidden comment on short links
Approved M AliceWyman Intro: updated link to renamed article and other edits
Approved M AliceWyman Use sentence-style capitalization in section headings as well as titles. Removed excess "fluff", other edits
Reviewed M Laucon I added a google form.
Reviewed M Laucon I took out the header because it was the same as the title
Reviewed M Laucon I added one link.
Reviewed M Laucon I added a video
Reviewed M Artist minor rewording
Reviewed M Laucon I changed the title
Reviewed M Laucon I edited links.
Reviewed M Laucon I completely changed this article.
Approved M AliceWyman expanded search summary, linked to related articles
Approved   AliceWyman fixed typo
Approved   AliceWyman minor edit to last revision
Approved M AliceWyman SUMO style guide: serial commas, Mozilla Style Guide link, other edits
Approved M AliceWyman Search summary note (see discussion)
Approved M Joni search summary: 160 to 140
Approved M Joni removed guideline re: omitting product names
Approved M Joni added note about including product names in the title
Approved M AliceWyman Edit to last revision: added Capitalization under Pick a good title (see discussion)
Unreviewed   AliceWyman updates to last revision - see discussion
Unreviewed   Artist word and syntax edits, see new discussion
Approved M AliceWyman edit to last revision" removed "between words"
Approved M AliceWyman Pick a good title: Don't have extra spaces between words (see discussion)
Approved M AliceWyman minor edit to last revision
Approved M Joni changed masculine pronouns back to neutral
Unreviewed   Artist minor grammar mainly, spaces for TOC
Approved   user917725 removed share article
Approved M Joni Hid short links section
Unreviewed   Joni updated short link section
Approved   Michael Verdi removed redundant step
Approved   debjanichatterjee added a line -Copy the shortened link and paste it wherever necessary.
Approved   Rabbi Hossain Added Share Article Template
Approved M AliceWyman Do not use a colon in the article title since it prevents creating a wiki link to that article (bug 749835)
Approved M Michael Verdi Added instructions for creating mzl.la links
Approved M Michael Verdi Added info about the share template
Approved M Michael Verdi Finally added full sections about titles and summaries from our workshops, removed i.e. and e.g., new headings, removed wiki style examples and linked to markup cheat sheet instead
Approved M adampeebleswrites changed "web site" to "website"
Reviewed   rosieculps98 i still cant see the history..
Approved M scoobidiver added new keyword article, not linkable example
Approved M scoobidiver minor fix
Unreviewed   scoobidiver new title naming scheme, added slug, keyword and summary sections
Reviewed   FireFox Support
Approved M scoobidiver Internet instead of internet, .org instead of .com, fixed link formatting
Approved   AliceWyman minor fixes
Approved   tterranigma syntax error
Approved   michellerluna fixed one typo
Approved   Michael Verdi Fixed typo
Approved M Michael Verdi changed link to the new for article
Approved M Michael Verdi reorganized, moved some information to another document
Reviewed   žełvik fixed a contradictory example
Approved M Michael Verdi 1st draft

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