WikiQueer:Help Project

Welcome to the Help Project! This is a centralized project for improving and maintaining WikiQueer'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).

Main goals
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 participant, 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!

Our mission is to:
 * Make WikiQueer's help pages more accessible
 * Make WikiQueer's help interface more navigable
 * Improve individual help pages' text
 * Reduce unneeded complexity and redundancy
 * Continually maintain help pages by updating obsolete information

Open tasks / current projects

 * Identify areas of the help system that and are in need of some attention.
 * make more sense of the help system
 * developing nav templates in /Overview, with the possibility of using them on the help pages to aid users too.
 * creating a very easy to understand introduction to WikiQueer, some intro guides need to be created- currently:
 * Help:Help
 * WikiQueer:Help Project/Overview/Introductions
 * /Introduction to talk pages
 * /Introduction to policies guidelines
 * Navbox - WikiQueer:Help Project/Overview/Accessible Nav Box
 * Develop some general guidelines if possible
 * drafting in WikiQueer:Help Project/guidelines
 * Cleanup Category:WikiQueer 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!

Ongoing tasks

 * Discuss problems and ideas related to WikiQueer'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..
 * Address specific article concerns as listed below or on the talk page.

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

Scope
The principal index pages.
 * Help:Contents
 * Help:Contents/Account settings and maintenance
 * Help:Contents/Browsing WikiQueer
 * Help:Contents/Communication
 * Help:Contents/Editing WikiQueer
 * Help:Contents/Getting started
 * Help:Contents/Images and media
 * Help:Contents/Links
 * Help:Contents/Policies and guidelines
 * Help:Contents/Resources and lists
 * Help:Contents/Technical information
 * Help:Contents/The WikiQueer community
 * Help:Contents/Tracking changes
 * WikiQueer:Accessibility guideline

And of course the Help: namespace.

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


 * Categories
 * Category:WikiQueer help and its subcategories. See full contents here:

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiQueer:WikiProject Manual of Style coordinating pages which form the Manual of Style guidelines, reducing size increasing readability and consistency.
 * WikiQueer:WikiProject Policy and Guidelines one of their main goals is making policy and guideline pages easier to understand.
 * WikiQueer:WikiProject Contents smaller project that deals with issues pertaining to the overall arrangement of WikiQueer's contents/navigation system.


 * WikiQueer:Tutorial Drive tasked with creating tutorials - Inactive

Unconventional 'WikiProject' structures

 * WikiQueer:Help desk where would we be without them !
 * WikiQueer:Tips responsible for developing and maintaining the tip of the day templates which are displayed throughout WikiQueer,
 * WikiQueer:Article wizard 2.0 A shiny new attempt to guide editors creating their first article.
 * WikiQueer:User page design center One stop shop for user page design...


 * WikiQueer:Books and its subpages appear to be a collaboration.
 * Help:WikiQueer: The Missing Manual (and subpages) has a dedicated following.


 * WikiQueer:MediaWiki - a central point for collecting info about WikiQueer's use of the MediaWiki software

Templates
For talk pages related to the project add WikiProject Help to the top of the talk page.

There is also a simple talk page header intended for initially used help pages.. Template:Talkpage of help.

For your user page you can add User WikiQueer/Help Project to show participation.

Template for help categories

Barn stars
'The Helping Hand Barnstar' is to be awarded to editors who frequently help new users. Template:The Helping Hand Barnstar