Writing documentation

We always need help to improve the documentation, be it the class reference or the manual. Below, you can find our content and writing guidelines and concrete guides to make changes to the documentation.

Be sure to also check the workflow guidelines, especially if you're new to using Git or GitHub.

Guidelines

Here are the principles and guidelines we strive to follow to write accessible documentation.

• Content guidelines
• Writing guidelines
• Creating documentation images

Writing the manual

These articles explain how to contribute to this very documentation, and how to build the online version locally for testing.

• Contributing to the documentation
• Building the manual with Sphinx

Class reference guides

The pages below focus on the class reference.

As the reference is included in the Godot editor, its source files are part of the godot repository. We use XML files to write it, so the process to contribute to the class reference differs from writing the online manual.

• Contributing to the class reference
• Class reference primer

Translating the documentation

The community is always working hard on making Godot and its documentation available to more people. Localizing the documentation is a colossal and ongoing effort you can be part of.

• Editor and documentation localization