User:Noreplyz/betterhelp

This is a brief project page draft to better organise our help pages.


 * Do some big picture organisation - e.g. there are a lot of help pages that are currently serving many purposes. Split them up into groups:
 * Informational - the normal type of help page that describes a feature (e.g. Help:SOAP, Help:Theme Designer)
 * Instructional - a list of steps for users to take to perform some action (e.g. Help:Adding images)
 * Reference - for users finding the full details of a (e.g. Help:Infoboxes/Tags, Help:Wikitext)

For instance, a new admin wants to adjust their wiki theme. They can either go to:
 * The informational page, Help:Theme Designer, to find a summary of what the tool lets me do.
 * The instructional page, Help:Background, because they want to edit their background
 * The reference page, Help:Theme Designer/reference, if the admin wants to look at all the possible configurations in ThemeDesigner.

For instance, when I land on Help:VisualEditor, I don't want to know every single option available in the Insert menu - that should go in the reference page.

Some pages may not need a reference page - but any feature should have an informational page and any popular action should have an instructional page.


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 * -|Issues=
 * The great unknown of "it needs to be better organised"


 * -|Future=
 * Split up administration help into more subcategories
 * Consolidate the Curated Main Page‎ category with our help category - this should not be duplicated
 * Standardise screenshots
 * They should come from a set of exemplary wikis (e.g. fallout, muppet) rather than random wikis
 * Categorise screenshots (to prevent them from being deleted)
 * Archive certain categories
 * Move help forum Forum: pages to another category outside Help: