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:I agree this is a little messy. I think the simplest answer is just to make a table of help pages, organised by type, to help people find the one they need. This should be better for us than splitting it into categories. We'll just have to occasionally check that all the help pages are listed on here. I might be able to code up something that runs that check for us! I'll draft up a version of that table which you can play around with. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 07:23, 26 April 2012 (UTC) | :I agree this is a little messy. I think the simplest answer is just to make a table of help pages, organised by type, to help people find the one they need. This should be better for us than splitting it into categories. We'll just have to occasionally check that all the help pages are listed on here. I might be able to code up something that runs that check for us! I'll draft up a version of that table which you can play around with. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 07:23, 26 April 2012 (UTC) | ||
:Okay so I've added in the table, which should help. However, I'm not entirely happy with it yet. These pages have evolved separately over the past 6 years, in very different styles and with different goals. I think we need more pages like [[Help:Basics]] which are aimed at user questions and goals, rather than pages like [[Help:Articles]] which nobody would really choose to read. Pages like [[Help:Articles]] also seem to contain quite random and specific pieces of content and aren't well-rounded help pages. So I have 4 goals: | |||
:*Introduce more starting/introduction pages, things that users will want and seek to read (those can then link to specific pages such as create / categories / images etc) | |||
:*Better linking to specific help pages from all over the wiki (like template / categories - these should show up when viewing/editing all template/category pages) | |||
:*Separate help pages from policy pages (so have a [[Help:Copyright]] which should be different to the legalese policy wordings on [[Grand Theft Wiki: Copyright]]) | |||
:*More help for how the wiki's backend works (user profiles, user counts) and how the wiki's administration works | |||
:Does that all seem good to you? [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 08:09, 26 April 2012 (UTC) | |||