The SciPy Documentation Project (Technical Overview)

Abstract

This summer saw the first NumPy Documentation Marathon, during which many thousands of lines of documentation were written. In addition, a web framework was developed which allows the community to contribute docstrings in a wiki-like fashion, without needing access to the source repository. The new reference guide, which is based on these contributions, was built using the popular Sphinx tool. While the documentation coverage is now better than ever, there is still a lot of work to be done, and we encourage interested parties to register and contribute further. This paper gives a more detailed overview of the events leading to this project, and of the technical goals achieved.