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.

proposal

• Copy/paste entire HelpIndex page here
• remove the parts we don't need
• start going through the list to see what need to happen for each page
  • 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

Account

• • Account, create
  • Account, why to create
• AddCategory
• Address, removal
• Advanced Editing (metawikipedia)
• Adult content
  • flag a page for
  • remove an inaccurate flag
• Anchors (metawikipedia)
• Alerts for page changes. See Changes
• Article. See Page
• Automatic page generation. See Bot

B

• Badge, AboutUs
• Basic formatting
• Big text
• Boldface
• Bot
  • AboutUs:Bot
  • Bot, prevent AboutUs bot from gathering info about your site
  • Bot, prevent outside bot from scraping mailing address from AboutUs
  • Bot, prevent outside bot from scraping email address from AboutUs
  • Bot, removing info generated by AboutUs bot
• Breaking lines of text
• Bugs, report a bug or error

C

• Capitalization of page name. See Page
• CamelCase
• Carriage return
• Categories
  • Categories, add a category
  • Categories, detailed help (metawikipedia)
• Characters, special (metawikipedia)
• Characters, unicode
• Changes
  • Changes, alert registered user to changes to a page
  • Changes, alerts for unregistered users
  • Special:Recentchanges, recent changes to AboutUs
  • RelatedChanges
• Chat live with AboutUs staff and users. See IRC
• Comments (hidden comments in text) (metawikipedia)
• Community Reviews
• Community Reviews, formatting
• Community Reviews Guidelines
• Complaints. Also see ConcernsFAQ
  • Complaints, copyright infringement, AboutUs
  • Complaints, copyright infringement, non-AboutUs sites
  • Complaints, domain name disputes
  • Complaints, other (non-AboutUs.com) websites
  • Complaints, Verisign logo forgery
• ConcernsFAQ
• Configure personal preferences
• Contact AboutUs for help, how to
• Contact information, removal
• Contents, Table of Contents
• Copyright Complaints. See Complaints
• Contributions of a user, listing
• Create a page. See Page
• Create Subdomain
• Custom thumbnails, tagging

D

• Deleting content
• Deleting a page
• Developers, AboutUs software developers
  • Developers, domain page detection query
  • Developers, extensions (MediaWiki)
  • Development Team
• Domain name disputes
• Domain page capitalization
• Domain page detection query
• Domain, tag non-existent or shut

E

• Edit. Also see Formatting
  • Edit, preview changes
  • Edit, revert
  • Edit, save page
  • Edit, show changes
  • EditSummary
  • Edit summary -francais
  • Edit, syntax
  • Edit, undo
  • EditWars
• Email, protect email address from spam
• Enlarge text
• Error, report a bug or error
• Extensions (MediaWiki)
• Extensions, googlemap (MediaWiki)
• External Links. See Links, External

F

• FAQs (answers to Frequently Asked Questions)
  • ConcernsFAQ
  • FAQ Miscellaneous
• Featured Pages
• Featured Page, nominating
• Featured image tagging
• File upload to AboutUs
• Flag adult content
  • remove an inaccurate flag
• ForgotPassword
• Formatting. Also see Edit
  • Formatting, basic
  • Formatting, boldface
  • Formatting, cheatsheet
  • Formatting, comments (metawikipedia)
  • Formatting community reviews
  • Formatting, fixed-width (typewriter) text (<tt>) (metawikipedia)
  • Formatting, headings
  • Formatting, HTML tags in (metawikipedia)
  • Formatting, indents
  • Formatting, italics
  • Formatting, lists
  • Formatting, sections
  • Formatting sections, detailed help (metawikipedia)
  • Formatting, strikethrough (metawikipedia)
  • Formatting, special characters (metawikipedia)
  • Formatting, tables
  • Formatting, tables, detailed help (metawikipedia)
  • Formatting text
  • Formatting, typewriter text (<tt>) (metawikipedia)

G

• Gallery
• Glossary
• Googlemap extension (MediaWiki)

H

• Headings. See Formatting
• Help contacts for AboutUs. Also see IRC
• Help page for user questions
• Help portal
• Hidden comments in text (metawikipedia)
• Horizontal line (metawikipedia)
• Hide address from outside bots. See Bot
• Hide email address from outside bots. See Bot
• HTML tags in wikitext (metawikipedia)
• Home page of AboutUs

I

• Images
  • Images, detailed help (metawikimedia)
  • Image gallery
  • Image positioning
  • Image quick help
  • Image tutorial (wikipedia)
  • Image, size
  • Image, thumbnail
  • Image, upload to AboutUs
• Indents
• Index of AboutUs (extremely incomplete, just getting started)
• Infringement notice
• Intellectual Property Policy
• Internal Links
• Interwiki. See Links, Interwiki
• IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
• Italics
• Invisible comments in text (metawikipedia)

L

• Line break
• Links
  • Linking
  • Link to AboutUs
  • Links to page or website
  • Links, CamelCase
  • Links, detailed help (metawikimedia)
  • Links, External or Links, External. Also see Links, Interwiki
  • Links, Internal
  • Links, Interwiki
  • Links, Interwiki linking (metawikimedia)
  • Links, Interwiki, AboutUs Interwiki map, prefixes
  • Links, list of AboutUs links to current page
  • Links, plainlinks
  • Link spam
• Lists, basic
• Lists, detailed help (metawikimedia)
• Live chat with AboutUs staff and users. See IRC

M

• Map, automatic
• Map, googlemap extension
• Message to another user
• MediaWiki extensions (MediaWiki)
• MediaWiki Handbook (metawikipedia)
• Move vandalism, fixing

N

• Navigation, sidebar
• Navigation, sidebar,site navigation
• New page. See Page
• New page, how to write. See Page
• Non-existent domain, tag

O

• Options, personal preferences

P

• Page (Article)
  • Page name capitalization
  • Page change alerts. See Changes
  • Page, create
  • Page, fix name
  • Page, mark for deletion
  • Page, formatting text. See Formatting
  • Page, featured, nominating
  • Page, how to improve ; also see list of featured sites
  • Page, how to write
  • Page, personal
  • Page, sidebar
  • Page, thumbnail image in
  • Page, video, adding
• Paragraphs (metawikipedia)
• Password, forgotten password
• Password-required domain, tag
• PersonalPage
• Personal page, overview
• Personal preferences
• Photos. See Images
• Pictures. See Images
• Plainlinks
• Preferences
• Preformatted Text
• Prevent bot from gathering info. See Bot
• Preview edit changes
• Privacy, AboutUs policy
• Protect address from outside bots. See Bot
• Protect email address from outside bots. See Bot

R

• RecentChanges
• Re-creation of page, preventing
• Redirect
  • List of pages redirecting to the current page
• Register. See Account
• Related Domains (section of Domain Page)
• Remove inaccurate AdultContent flag
• Remove info generated by AboutUs bot. See Bot
• Remove address and contact information
• Remove a page
• Report a bug or error
• Report a complaint. See Complaints
• Report a concern
• RSS

S

• Sandbox
• Searching AboutUs
• Sections and headings. See Formatting
• Security through obscurity
• Send a message to another user
• Show changes
• Shrink text
• Shut domain, tag
• Sidebar, adding to page. See Page
• Sidebar, site navigation
• Signature, improving
• Small text
• Software developers, domain page detection query
• Strikethrough (metawikipedia)
• Spam
• Spam, protect email address from spam
• Spam, category spam
• Spam, link spam
• Spam, sites that spam
• Spam, tagging pages of possible spammers
• Special characters (metawikipedia)
• Specific (non-AboutUs.com) website feedback
• Subdomain capitalization
• Subdomain, create a page for
• Suggested edits. See Tagging
• SuggestionBox
• Summary of edit
• Syntax

T

• Takedown notice
• Templates
• Templates, detailed help (metawikipedia)
• Table of Contents
• Tables
• Tables, detailed help (metawikipedia)
• Tags, HTML tags allowed in wikitext (wikipedia)
• Tagging (AboutUs special tags / templates)
  • Adult content, flag for
  • remove inaccurate Adult content flag
  • Tag authorization-required domain
  • Tag "coming soon" domain
  • Tag improper deletions
  • Tag custom thumbnails
  • Tag featured image
  • Tag fix to get map to work right
  • Tag page to delete
  • Tag for name of page fix
  • Tag for sale domain
  • Tag password-required domain
  • Tag incomplete hand-created page
  • Tag non-existent domain
  • Tag for page name fix
  • Tag parking lot
  • Tag possible spam domain
  • Tag spam
  • Tag shut domain
  • Tag temporary talk page
  • Tag test page
  • Tag thumbnail, custom
• Talk
  • TalkPage
  • Talk Page Etiquette
  • Talk, how do I message another user
• Test, page for testing wiki code
• Test page, tagging for deletion
• Text formatting. See Formatting
• Thumbnail
• Thumbnail, custom, tagging
• Thumbnail, update
• TOC (table of contents)
• TheWikiWay:TopMenu
• Town Pump
• Tutorial on Wikis
• WikiSyntax

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

V

• Vandalism, fixing move vandalism
• Verisign, report logo forgery
• Video Support
• Videos, YouTube
• Volunteer opportunities at AboutUs

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

Moving namespaces

Ran across a good potential use for Namespaces. I want to see if HelpIndex links to the pages pointed to by Six messaging areas. Some of those pages are linked to by a huge list of stuff. The What links here pages allow me to limit the list to a particular Namespace. Unfortunately, HelpIndex seems to be in the main Namespace. Would it make sense to move it to the Help namespace so we could more easily see if HelpIndex linked to various pages? What would be the side effects of this move? -- Joe Cohen | Leave me a message 20:09, 10 February 2008 (PST)

Yes, I have seen that benefit as well. I think it's fine to move it. Help:HelpIndex or Help:Index? The potentially hardest part of that will be checking backlinks for double-redirects, but maybe since HelpIndex is new, there aren't too many redirects to it yet.

I do suggestion moving this part about the re-naming to HelpIndex before we do it. TedErnst (talk) 05:58, 11 February 2008 (PST)

1. Re your question where to move it: Help:HelpIndex or Help:Index? The second is simpler. I like simple but don't have a strong preference. Does one of these work better than the other? Note that because of how Find functions, you must type "Help:Index" into the Find box to have Help:Index returned as a search result. So we must keep HelpIndex (for among other reasons) so that users searching for "Help Index" and the like would generate a hit.
2. "What links here" says there are 50 pages that link to HelpIndex. This is a manageable number for checking backlinks for double-redirects. And even 50 appears to be an exaggeration; it appears that many of these pages link to HelpIndex only because they include the CommunityNews template.

-- Joe Cohen | Leave me a message 07:43, 11 February 2008 (PST)

Joe, I have never been a big fan of namespaces, as Ted knows :-) - I am usually more interested in flattening out the wiki than making it more complicated. What benefit do you see about using the namespace, I see you mentinon What links here - but am still confused. Best, MarkDilley

Mark: What I see isn't a huge benefit; there are workarounds; and I don't know enough about the workings of Namespaces to have an opinion on the tradeoffs. Anyhow, here's what I had in mind as a benefit:
I stumble across (or someone sends me to) a page that includes some kind of help. Is that page already included in HelpIndex? An intuitively easy way to answer this is to look at What links here. But What links here may return a really long list of pages -- in an order that I don't yet understand -- partly because it defaults to listing pages from all Namespaces. If HelpIndex were outside the Main Namespace (e.g., in the Help Namespace), I could display What links here from only the Help Namespace, and tell more quickly if the page was linked to by HelpIndex. That's all I had in mind. -- Joe Cohen | Leave me a message 11:19, 11 February 2008 (PST)

Tasks

• Review Glossary, point out Glossary items for which help is available elsewhere or that I don't understand. Those entries will be listed at User_talk:JDCohen#Glossary. Now complete through M.
• Review Special pages to see if appropriate ones are in this index and have help pages.
• More formatting
  • paragraphs
  • formulas
  • advanced / css
• Review http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Html metawikipedia:Help:HTML_in_wikitext (this literally could mean going through all the metawikipedia help pages one by one and seeing what could be linked to or needs to be brought to AboutUs). List of all pages in the metawikipedia Help Namespace is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages?from=&namespace=12
• Review AboutUs FAQs, add entries as appropriate
• Review AboutUs help categories, add entries as appropriate
• Review Category:AboutUs:Templates
• Review wikipedia:Help:Contents#For_editors
  • Add entries as appropriate, with multiple headings, if appropriate
• Where duplicate headings link to different pages, consider eliminating an entry
• Sectional links for longer pages, like AboutUs:Basic wiki formatting WikiTour
• The following are ideas on formatting / appearance of this HelpIndex
  • in source text for this section, change <strike> to css
  • perhaps create template to be used for links to (metawikipedia)
  • Category-style alpha TOC; perhaps best if this could float; but floating is probably incompatible with multiple columns because the index would cover up part of the right-hand column(s). See next bullet point.
  • turn the index into multi-columns (takes less time to find right place). But probably incompatible with floating index.
• Consider replacing duplicate links (different entries that link to same place) with cross references to the same entry, so that there's only one link. (Makes it easier to link to a different place -- only need to change one link.)
• In the future, the help pages with multiple topics (BasicWikiFormatting) can be broken up so permalinks can work for the sub-sections - and transcluded back together so BasicWikiFormatting still works.
• Are all pages pointed to by HelpIndex in Category:AboutUs_Help?

Idea