Difference between revisions of "Get help pages ready for CompostUs"

OurWork (.) Get help pages ready for CompostUs / . (.)

What's involved here? We have HelpIndex. Is it just a question of going through all those links and seeing which screenshots/text will need to change? How do we organize it?

14:02, 17 March 2008 (PDT) Now much higher priority than we thought Dev will flip the switch to CompostUs is less than 24 hours.

the plan

• Copy/paste entire HelpIndex page here
• remove the parts we don't need
• verify that we have the whole list
• start going through the list to see what need to happen for each page
  • if it's a cross-reference, remove it
  • if it's an external link, remove it
  • if small fix, just do it and strike that idea.
  • if bigger make a note next to the entry
• once we see patterns begin to emerge, we can split the list up into different tasks, or use categories or something
• when a whole section has been struck, remove it entirely

A

• AboutUs badge - Needs new screenshot after
• Contact Us
• AboutUs help portal - Needs column widths adjusted now
• AboutUs Home - Needs new screenshot now
• AboutUs.org RSS Newsfeed
• WikiAnatomy
• HelpUs
• How to create an account -- text and screenshot both need updated
• Why create an account?
• AddCategory - Text needs updating to be more explicit how to edit (the wiki section
• Removing Your Address And Contact Information
• PossibleAdultContent - doesn't have a slide, could use one
• Remove AdultContent Flag - merge with above page?

C

• TheWikiWay:LinkAsYouThink
• Unicode - This article could use some text.
• my watchlist -- needs new screenshot of account box now
• EmailAlerts -- needs new screenshot of account box & preferences screen now
• Special:Recentchanges -- Mark has ideas about how to make this one better. He also has the URL for making edits.
• RelatedChanges -- Needs new screenshots now
• InfluenceUs -- Needs new screenshot now
• Intellectual Property Policy
• CopyrightComplaints
• Dispute
• ConcernsFAQ
• TheWikiWay:Preferences
• TOC
• UserContributions -- text needs updating after, and slide is missing
• Create Subdomain

D

• TheWikiWay:Deleting
• Delete - I don't understand this page. Are these templates every used? Should they be? Can we delete this page?
• DomainPage - Needs new screenshot now
• Category:AboutUsDeveloper
• Help:How do I fix the capitalization of an article? -- Needs new screenshot now
• Template:NoWebsite

E

• TheWikiWay:ShowPreview
• Revert - Vartan's animated gif needs updating now
• TheWikiWay:SavePage
• TheWikiWay:ShowChanges
• EditSummary - Needs new screenshot now
• EditWars

F

• Help:FAQ
• Portal:AboutUsFeatureMe
• FeatureMeNominated
• FeaturedImage
• Upload file -- Needs text and screenshot updated now
• ForgotPassword
• Help:Cheatsheet -- Could use new logo later
• Tables

I

• ImageHelp - needs new text and screenshots now
• How can I add a thumbnail to an article? - I think this will update itself once domaintools has a new thumbnail for us?
• Index
• Internal Linking Guide
• AboutUs LiveChat

L

• Help:How do I link to another article or another website? this page needs to go away
• Internal Linking Guide
• InterWiki
• Special:Interwiki
• What links here -- now needs new screenshots and text

M

• MapMashup
• How do I send a message to another person? needs text updated now
• MoveVandalism

N

• Help:Sidebar Navigation
• TheWikiWay:SiteNavigation needs updated text and screenshots now

P

• PersonalPage - needs updated text and screenshots now
• AboutUsVideoSupport - I updated already
• TheWikiWay:PersonalPage - needs updated text and screenshots now

R

• RecentChanges - now needs new text and screenshot
• WhatRedirectsHere - now needs new text and screenshot

T

Ted is working on this section now.

• Templates
• Tagging (AboutUs special tags / templates)
  • Tag incomplete hand-created page
  • Tag possible spam domain
• Talk
  • TalkPage
  • Talk Page Etiquette
  • Talk, how do I message another user
• Thumbnail
• Thumbnail, update
• TOC (table of contents)
• TheWikiWay:TopMenu
• Town Pump
• Tutorial on Wikis

U

• Undo Edit
• Unicode characters
• Unwatch a page
• Upload file
• Usage guidelines
• site navigation
• UserContributions
• User home page
• User preferences
• User messages. See Talk
• User talk. See Talk

W

• Watch pages for changes; Watchlist. See Changes
• Website (non-AboutUs.com) feedback
• Whois services
• Wiki, What is a Wiki?
• What links here
• WikiAnatomy
• WikiLink
• Wiki tour
• Wiki tutorial
• WikiSyntax
• WordPress.org (free publishing platform)

Y

• YouTube Videos, adding to page

Idea