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Welcome to the Help Project! This is a centralized project for improving and maintaining Wikipedia's help system. Our goal is to improve the help pages. For experienced editors this means finding accurate help easily. For new readers and editors this means providing the help to become constructive editors as efficiently as possible (focusing on introductory pages, tutorials and ease of navigation).

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[edit] Main goals

The help pages of Wikipedia 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!

Chances are if you have come to this project you have been editing the help pages yourself and have aided the project already. Apart from our main goal to improve the help system, we hope to provide an oasis of [apparent] order in all the chaos - or at least a place where editors of the different sections can meet up and get further opinions without having to understand the entire structure of the help system. This should be especially useful as many of the help pages have few, if any regular maintainers, and a good idea may get lost in time if it seems there is no other support.

This is an open project and free to join in any discussions / projects without being listed as a participent, but you are of course welcome to choose a comfy chair and sign up for moral support. This project is built on the foundations of several other battles to make some sense of the chaos including the Helping Hands Project, each time the situation seems to be improve, hopefully this time we can tame it!

[edit] Open tasks / current projects

[edit] Ongoing tasks

  • Discuss problems and ideas related to Wikipedia's help system on the talk page or through the links in the following section.
  • Tag any pages that should be within the scope of the project with the project banner {{Help Project}} on their talk pages - all main pages covered just the odd ones that we may have missed, and essays/guidelines mostly not tagged until further thoughts..
  • Try to direct questions to the correct areas and reduce workload of editors in each of the specific areas to relevant queries.
  • Ensure pages are written to answer common questions clearly in help pages and reduce unnecessary questioning on talk pages.
  • The help system needs watchdogs to check for test edits on articles and talk pages and to redirect misplaced questions by new users.(Help:Contents, all its subpages, and all the pages linked to from its subpages, etc.) You can see recent changes of pages within this projects scope using the this link..

[edit] Future tasks

  • Cleanup Category:Wikipedia help and subcategories.
  • Fix the introductory pages, pages 2 and 3 are really just lists of links, some of which are way too heavy for their position in an introduction!

[edit] Active discussions and request for comment

Help-related discussions that would benefit from more input or are of interest to the help pages in general, or requests for further opinions ( a mini Rfc for help page editors)

Introduction,Tutorial, newcomers help page and more.

[edit] Articles needing attention

Articles requiring attention or further thought listed on this page (which also lists completed missions).

Help articles that need attention (Edit)
Article in Help: namespace Article in Wikipedia: namespace Comments
na Wikipedia:How to edit a page not very easy to read - ouch!
Help:Reader Template:Quick help Template:Reader toc Only link to themselves and a few old userpage links - an artifact of the past that could be deleted?
Wikipedia:Cheatsheet This is the page that opens in a new window when the 'Editing help' link on the edit window is clicked. could do with a quick navbox to useful stuff at bottom ?
Help:Searching Help:Go button Wikipedia:Searching Wikipedia:Look it up Merged into Wikipedia:Searching, which still needs attention.
Help:Account Wikipedia:Account No help page exists, WP space one is very TLDR/unfriendly.
Help:Files Wikipedia:Images Wikipedia:Picture tutorial unable to locate succint and helpful info on the parameters for using images easily - have found it at Wikipedia:Extended image syntax maybe this isn't linked very well
Help:Files Wikipedia:Images Wikipedia:Image use policy Wikipedia:Extended image syntax Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials Wikipedia:Captions Wikipedia:Gallery tag Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial Wikipedia:Uploading images Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia Wikipedia:Graphics in two modes Wikipedia:Picture tutorial A lot of image pages with various amounts of duplication.
Help:Footnotes Wikipedia:Footnotes
Help:Wiki markup could do with making both simpler and more comprehensive!


[edit] Scope

The principal index pages.

Categories

And of course the Help: namespace.

Pages already tagged for the project are listed in Category:WikiProject Help Project.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Uconventional 'WikiProject' structures

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Notes

[edit] Templates

For talk pages related to the project add {{Help Project}} to the top of the talk page.

WikiProject Help
Question book magnify2.svg This article is within the scope of WikiProject Help, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the help system on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

For your user page you can add {{User wikipedia/Help Project}} to show participation.

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Wikipedia's Help Project.




[edit] Participants

  1. Ben (Talk to Me)
  2. Go for it! (aka The Transhumanist ) 13:56, 14 January, 2006 (founded)
  3. HereToHelp (talkcontribs) 14:10, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
  4. Gareth Aus 22:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
  5. --Aude (talk | contribs) 03:41, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
  6. Bjelleklang - talk 09:21, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
  7. Commander Keane 18:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC) Interested in developing the help infrastructure for new users.
  8. AtionSong
  9. -- Quiddity (talk)
  10. PretzelsTalk! 17:34, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
  11. -- Daniel Jones (talk) 11:25, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
  12. Elder Kibwe (talk) 14:36, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
  13. L∴V 11:46, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
  14. -— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:10, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
  15. œ 04:09, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
  16. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 23:22, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
  17. Rd232 talk 07:24, 29 October 2009 (UTC)



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