Projekt:PD-hjälp är ett projekt för att skapa en samling konsistenta hjälpsidor för användare av MediaWiki, t.ex. för besökare på en webbplats som använder MediaWiki.

Projektet täcker allt innehåll inamnrymden Help (Hjälp).Huvudportalen för detta ärHelp:Innehåll.

Hjälpdokumentationen separeras frånmanualen (den GFDL- eller CC BY-SA-licensierade manualen för MediaWikis administratörer).Bidragsgivare, var tydliga med skillnaden!PD-hjälpsidorna innehåller inte information för server administratörer, om hur man installerar, konfigurerar eller underhåller MediaWiki.Läs avsnittet 'Målsättning' här nedan för ett detaljerat uttalande över vad vi försöker gör här.

  Var vänliga och kopierainte innehåll frånMeta-Wikis hjälpsidor hit.

De skrevs under GFDL- eller CC BY-SA-licens och ärinte public domain.

The goal is to provide a set of pages, which can be copied into a fresh wiki installation or included in the MediaWiki distribution.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.

We are not aiming to duplicate the full MediaWiki documentation.Information targeted at server administrators, detailing installation, configuration, or maintenance of MediaWiki, belongs in theManual.

Help pages would not be complete without it also describing what 'sysop' users can do.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.

Den här sektionen ärunder uppbyggnad

• 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.

All pages in the "Help:" namespace are, by definition, part of this public domain Help documentation project and should be categorizedKategori:Hjälp.Help pages for MediaWiki extensions, should be categorized in its subcategoryCategory:Extension help.

The former category for pages in the "Help:" namespace, this public domain Help documentation project, wasCategory:PD help.In keeping with simplicity, the category is now simplyKategori:Hjälp and all pages have been updated.

• Portal:Språkpolicy – Är du intresserad att jobba på version av hjälpsidor sominte är på engelska?
• Project:PD help/export –Discusses a proposed method of creating usable dumps of the Help: namespace. This is still at the discussion stage and is not yet functional.

• Policy/sv
• MediaWiki.org WikiProjects/sv