Archives for Edwin Dawson

Scanning Confluence for Content Errors

Introduction As technical writers working on a wiki, one of the problems we face is that Confluence doesn't really have any in-built feature for detecting a range of content errors. I refer to things like broken internal links, broken images, broken JIRA issues macros (specifically), any macros that have failed to render (in general) and inclusions that cannot find the page to insert (covering {include} and {excerpt-include} macros). Some other problems are that you tend to end up with a lot

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A Week in the Life of an Atlassian Tech Writer

Atlassian is an unusual company, where we not only get to work on leading-edge software, but also enjoy tackling tough challenges at the forefront of our craft. This blog — about a regular work week — captures this element of our work. Monday 9am: Coffee. I dig into documentation work for Confluence, which is my primary area of responsibility. I'm currently documenting a new WYSIWYG editor, which is a pleasure to write. This is because Confluence is a good platform for technical documentation;

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