help Project
This is a centralized project for improving and maintaining Wikipedia's help system.
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Help Project!
The current project collaboration is Assessment of help pages.
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The trouble with help pages
The help pages of Wiki are a rabbit warren of various types of pages, written to differing levels of technical expertise and in widely varying styles. The effect can be quite overwhelming! The help system has also become bloated, and continues to grow: in redundancy, in wordiness, and via instruction creep.
This WikiProject provides an oasis of order amidst the chaos - a place where editors can meet up, share opinions, and support each other with the mammoth task of help cleanup. Many of the help pages have few, if any regular maintainers, so having a place to record ideas can ensure that good ideas endure.
Please join. We can use all the help we can get. (Pun intended). See also Wiki: Help desk patrol
GoalsOur overall goal is to improve the help pages for readers, new editors and experienced editors alike. Our ongoing objectives with respect to the help system are to:
How to get involved
Open tasks
Ongoing tasks
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Page alertsRedirects for discussion
Articles for creation
Assessment
Bird's-eye viewTo survey Wikipedia's huge collection of help pages, try the following pages:
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Pages needing work
Pages requiring some work or further thought listed on this page (which also lists completed missions).
| Page in Help: namespace | Page in Wikipedia: namespace | Comments |
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| Pages in Category:Wikipedia multilingual support | Should be cleaned up and some possibly merged together. | |
| Help:Diff | As of May 2012, needs updating for the new diff formatting (assuming that doesn't get reverted!) | |
| n/a | Wiki: How to edit a page | not very easy to read - ouch! |
| Help:Account | Wiki: Account | No help page exists, WP space one is very TLDR/unfriendly. |
| Help:Files | Wiki: Images Wiki: Picture tutorial | unable to locate succint and helpful info on the parameters for using images easily - have found it at Wiki: Extended image syntax maybe this isn't linked very well |
| Help:Files | Wiki: Images Wiki: Image use policy Wiki: Extended image syntax Wiki: Preparing images for upload Wiki: Graphics tutorials Wiki: Captions Wiki: Gallery tag Wiki: Creation and usage of media files Wiki: Finding images tutorial Wiki: Uploading images Wiki: Ten things you may not know about images on Wiki Wiki: Picture tutorial | A lot of image pages with various amounts of duplication. |
| Help:Footnotes | Wiki: Manual of Style (footnotes) | |
| Help:Wiki markup | could do with making both simpler and more comprehensive! | |
| Wiki: Starting an article Wiki: Article creation Wiki: Your first article | 3 pages on starting an article |
Relevant Wikipedia project pages
- Category:Wikipedia information pages and Category:Wikipedia how-to are the main subcategories listing help pages.
- Wiki: Help desk (interactive) for questions about how to use or edit Wiki English.
- Wiki: Teahouse (interactive) helps new editors become accustomed to community culture, ask questions, and develop community relationships.
- Wiki: Contributing to Wiki parent article on how and where editors can contribute to Wiki English.
- Help:Getting started links to the basics needed to use, comment on, and contribute to Wiki English.
- Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is a whole help guide.
- Wiki: A Primer for newcomers explains editing and policy basics.
- Wiki: Article wizard helps to guide editors creating their first article.
- Wiki: The Wikipedia Adventure is an interactive tutorial for new editors.
- Wiki: Annotated article illustrates the different sections of an article.
- Wiki: Workshop's Sample one day workshop presents an outline for workshop leaders that also is a guide for new users.
- Wiki English
Definitions from Wiktionary - Wiki English
Media from Commons - Wiki English
News from Wikinews - Wiki English
Quotations from Wikiquote - Wiki English
Texts from Wikisource - Wiki English
Textbooks from Wikibooks - Wiki English
Resources from Wikiversity - Wiki English
Data from Wikidata
- Wiki: Tips is the complete library of tips arranged by subject.
- Wiki: Tip of the day project develops and maintains the tip of the day templates which are displayed throughout Wiki English.
- Wiki: Article Feedback Tool/Tutorial is a page linked to some articles encouraging readers to edit.
Related WikiProjects
- WikiProject Editor Retention – devising ways of keeping good editors here (new and old).
- WikiProject Manual of Style – coordinating pages which form the Manual of Style guidelines: reducing size, increasing readability and consistency.
- WikiProject Policy and Guidelines – one of their main goals is making policy and guideline pages easier to understand.
- WikiProject Usability – aims to make Wikipedia easy and pleasant to use, focussing on accessibility for all potential users, interface etc.
Other resources
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