Differences between Official and Community documentation?

Question

Ubuntu provides Official and Community documentation.

• Why create the two streams?
• Is the official documentation more trustworthy?
• Is the criteria to add to it more strict?

Answer 1

• Community documentation can be created by anyone using the wiki.
• Any user can create a how-to for any ubuntu-related topic under the Community documentation.
• Official documentation are the online html version of the system documentation that can be edited only by core-doc team.
• The official documentation are narrower in scope,dealing only with main help topics.