documentarian

== English == === Etymology === From documentary +‎ -an. From document +‎ -arian. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɒk.jʊ.mənˈtɛəɹi.ən/, /-.mɛnˈ-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌdɑ.kjʊ.mənˈtɛɹi.ən/, /-.kjə.-/, /-.mɛnˈ-/ Rhymes: -ɛəɹiən === Noun === documentarian (plural documentarians) A person whose profession is to create documentary films. A person who writes software documentation. A person who cares about communication and documentation. 2013, Troy Howard, Eric Redmond, Eric Holscher Documentarians, Write the Docs: Expanding the meaning of documentarian to include folks of any job title is important. Historically, people writing documentation might be called either a tech writer or a programmer, but there wasn’t a name for someone who cares about communication and documentation. We hope to change this. 2018, Jonathan Glassman, Build your Docs career event: our recap, UK Government Digital Service: I recently co-organised the Build your Docs career conference together with the Write the Docs (WTD) community. This was the fourth collaboration between the organisations and focused on the technical writing profession ... The talks provided lots of practical advice on how we can, as documentarians, learn in such a way as to maximise our potential for development in the future. (sometimes attributive, theology) Somebody who advocates the documentary hypothesis. ==== Related terms ==== documenter ==== Translations ==== === References === Ozeki, Ruth. My Year of Meat