Project:PD help is a project to create a set of concise user help pages for MediaWiki users, i.e. for visitors to a website which is powered by MediaWiki.

The project covers all content in the Helpnamespace.The main entry point for this isHilfe:Übersicht.

This help documentation is separate from theManual (the GFDL and CC BY-SA-licensed MediaWiki administrator's manual).Contributors, please be clear about the differences!The PD help pages do not contain information for server administrators, about how to install, configure, or maintain MediaWiki software.See the 'Goal' section below, for a detailed statement of what we are trying to achieve.

  Pleasedo not copy and paste content fromMeta-Wiki's Help pages in here.

They were written under the GFDL and CC BY-SA licenses and arenot in the public domain.

Die Idee ist es einen Satz von Hilfeseiten zu , welche man in eine frische MediaWiki-Installation kopieren kann oder dass diese Seiten mit der MediaWiki-Distribution ausgeliefert werden.This will include basic user information, along with other Meta information, in a reasonably concise form.The basic concept is to create acompressed "User Guide", not a reference work. It should focus on what users want and not explain other functions.

Contributions to thePD Help, are released aspublic domain via theCC0 waiver.This is necessary in order to allow users to easily copy the text into their own wiki installations.Please ensure you understand the following before contributing:

• Every page in the PD Help, must contain the line{{PD Help Page}} to indicate the license.
• No content can be copied from elsewhere into these pages. The only exceptions being:

1. The content being copied is your own personal (e.g. the author), or you have documented permission from the original author(s).
2. Content that is already in thePublic Domain can be copied here; however, this doesNOT include the majority of published web pages!

• You are relinquishing all rights to the information you contribute here. Although you will continue to have your contributions listed and attributed on this site, others can copy the text without giving credit, and can modify it as they see fit.

De Hölp-Sigge sin vör allem för der nommaale Besöker em Wiki jedaach un jemaat.

Mer welle nit de kumplätte Dokkemäntazjuhn för MedijaWiki widerholle.Enfommazjuhne för de Administroore vun op däm ßööver Nivoh, Enshtallazjuhne, Enresschtunge, un et en Schoß hallde vun MedijaWiki, jehööt en etHandbooch.Information targeted at server administrators, detailing installation, configuration, or maintenance of MediaWiki, belongs in theManual.

De eijnizze kleine Ußnahm sen de Käßte metTips för de Administratoore, süsch onge.

De Hölp_Sigge wöhre nit kumplät, without also describing what 'Wiki_Köbesse' can do, however these more advanced features are not available to majority of a target audience (the majority of wiki users). As such, we should keep this information a little bit separate, so that normal users are not confronted with information which is not relevant to them. Within the bulk of the Help pages we will make brief mentions of things which require sysop priviledges, but detailed descriptions of sysop procedures should be tucked away on less prominently linked pages, or should be left out of the Help pages all together.However, these advanced features are not available to the majority of the target audience (most wiki users).As such, this information is to be kept slightly separate from the majority of the contents, so that normal users are not confronted with information which is not relevant to them.

Heh dä Afschnettweed beklaaf.

• Create links between the pages, but avoid linking to other namespaces on MediaWiki.org. Keep the links internal to the public domain help pages, or make external links (full URL) to relevant resources,e.g. on meta.wikimedia.org. This is to facilitate easier copying of the text into fresh wiki installations. Do not use interwiki links, as these may not exist in the target wiki.
• We probably don't want to swap in the {{SITENAME}} syntax anywhere. MediaWiki is the name of the software we are describing. This is theContent Management Software (CMS), that enables the destination wiki to run, so anywhere where our text is referring to the software (everywhere throughout help), it should be left as a literal string "MediaWiki". If, for some reasons, the help text is mentioning the name of the site, then this would be an appropriate exception (use {{SITENAME}}). However, we arenot going to swap this in everywhere we mention the word MediaWiki.
• Translations should be doneafter the English version of a page has reached a stable status. The naming convention isPagetitle/language-code (e.g. Help:Editing/pt).
• Unless you have the perfect solution for navigation in this manual, please refrain from creating navigation templates, and focuscontent creation first.
• Do not use extensions such asCite, since they are not installed on all MediaWiki installations.

• Formatting should be consistent. Useclass="wikitable" for any tables you create, highlight cells or rows with{{Hl1}} etc.
• All wiki markup and code should be put in‎<code> or‎<pre> tags. Help for inserting:{{subst:nw|text}}.
• All references to menu texts and descriptions should appear initalic.

Screenshots are useful.PD help pages donot have to contain only public domain screenshots (although trademarked logos must not be included).Screenshots should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and use the {{MediaWiki screenshot}} license template.

Wann en dä Hölp_Sigge jet es, wat enem ßööver singe Administrator enshtelle künnt, do kanns De ene Tip för dä met{{Admin tip|tip=text}} enboue.

All Sigge em „Hölp:“-Appachtemang sin — esu ham_mer dat faßjelaat — Deijl vum Prjäk för jemeinfreije Dokkemtäntazjuhn. Se sullte metCategory:Help en de Saachjropp jedonn wääde, wan en Sigg en Änglesch es. Wann nit, doht et Shprooche_Köözel dohenger schriive, för Ripoaresch/Kölsch zom BeishpöllCategory:Help/ksh, udderCategory:Help/de för Dütsch, un esu wigger.Help pages for MediaWiki extensions, should be categorized in its subcategoryCategory:Extension help.

Fröjer hatte mer de SaachjroppCategory:PD Help doför. För et eijfacher ze maache, es di jäz opCategory:Help ömjenannt woode un alle Sigge sen aanjepaß.In keeping with simplicity, the category is now simplyCategory:Help and all pages have been updated.

• Project:Language policy – Wann De aan de ovversaz, nit de änglesche, Versione vun dä Sigge werreke wells.
• Project:PD help/export – Diskutiert eine vorgeschlagene Methode zur Erstellung verwendbarer Dumbs des Hilfe-Namensraums. Dies befindet sich noch im DevelopmentDiskussionsstadium und funktioniert noch nicht.

• Policy/ksh
• MediaWiki.org WikiProjects/ksh