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# Who is reading
_documentation as a surface to build worlds around software?_
_docs to lower barriers and create entry points_
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a surface to build worlds?
where software circulate
who gets to use it
political of the software
documentation as a publishing surface?
yes because
it's often first thing one reads when approaching software - see getting started it's consulted not just from beginner, but also experienced users - see a code companion
it's often first thing one reads when approaching software - see getting started
it's consulted not just from beginner, but also experienced users - see a code companion
yes but
it should be less hostile - see welcoming writing
it should stop assuming reader
leading to --> 2. welcoming different knowledges
it should stop assuming reader - see natural readers
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## Hello worlding
why and what a surface to build worlds?
articulate intro
- where software circulate
- who gets to use it
- political of the software
again versioning tiger ding sun ? --> https://tdingsun.github.io/worlding/
(did already here --> https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~kamo/projects/api-worldbuilding/ )
## Getting started
`("Getting startled" could also make for a nice title)`

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# Who is writing?
_can documentation be an interface between different knowledges?_
_trigger different kinds of economy around software?_
- interface between code, developer, world
- post meritocracy manifesto
- trans\*femminist server whishlist
- 360 degrees of proximity
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Software documentation comes in different formats.
The Díataxis framework (Procida, 2017) maps them into four main quadrants using a systematic approach. It focuses on four main needs of the user: to learn, to understand, to get the work done, and to gather specific informations.
In this thesis the term documentation is less structured: it tries to encompass different forms of care. Instead of prescribing the recipe for a perfect solution, it attempts to describe a surface, and ways to navigate it.
Expanding the four quadrants, mixing them we can include transversal practices like that proposed for _360 degrees of proximity_.
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not a rigid framework
but a surface: a set of practices
something to be negotiated and expanded
example: a practice that gets instantiated in the form of workshop (_360 degrees of proximity_)
alt text poetry

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## 2. Who is writing?
_2000_
The second part explores documentation as a crossroads, where different knowledges meet in the making of software.
Documentation is a space that interfaces between the code, the user, the developer, and the world. A space where to welcome different voices: not just engineers, not just experts, not just dudes. A space to acknowledge the massive labor of care besides technicalities, often marginalized by coding culture.
__Sections:__
A section that focuses on who is writing the software, but not just the code. From software as inherently collaborative practice to the post-meritocratic manifesto.
A section about who is writing documentation, and how. Different strategies to approach it, from different knowledges. `wip`

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## Hello worlding
The third section is focused on worlding, and the relation between code, documentation practices and political aesthetic.
Here documentation is seen as a surface that could host principles in close contact with algorithms, letting them entangle and shape each other. A way to orientate our instruments towards "non-extractive relationships, but in the meantime, being accountable for the ones they are complicit with." (A Wishlist for Trans\*feminist Servers, 2022)
__Sections:__
A first part of theoretical examples of technology and worlding: Trans\*feminist Servers, Zach Blas, Tiger Ding Sun, James Bridle, Soon and Geox, Richard Gabriel.
A second part of case studies. The soupboat. Avantwhatever.net. Queer Motto API. The Screenless Office. The uxn ecosystem. `list wip`

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_can documentation be an ideal surface to build worlds?_
- the screenless office
- ian cheng
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