Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20190629005012/@comment-8-20190722173007

Fandyllic wrote: Yearly, is way too infrequent. You should do it at least quarterly and do a review of select pages every time you release a new major feature. To be honest, I would like to know how the rationale for yearly came about, because my guess would be "we don't want to spend time maintaining Help pages, but we'll give a minimal effort just so we aren't doing nothing." It took two weeks of concerted effort to review every help page - and that was well ahead of my estimate (and the time it has taken in previous years). I'm very happy with the team for getting it done so fast, but it was a time-consuming task. Doing it quarterly would be a big investment of time, when most pages don't need updating that often.

That said, we should certainly be reviewing pages when there is an update to a feature, or when there's a new feature. And that should happen as soon as the changes are made. I haven't been watching our success on that, but I would guess that we can do better.

I expect there to be a lot of work on help pages to be done as we upgrade MediaWiki.

Andrewds1021 wrote:

I guess I just don't understand enough of how MediaWiki works to get why you can't have global JS like you can global CSS. We can, and do, but it takes development time to do that. And as Noreplyz said, if we redirected more specifically, there would probably be a better way to do it. But as usual, it comes down to available dev time - and that's always scarce.