From BrWiki
This page is a manually updated list of help pages. This page contains a listing of all the help pages under each of the six major sections, a description of the information you can find on that page, and what needs to be done to improve that page. There is also a separate section for the help pages which are not directly linked to in one of the major sections. The purpose of this page is to provide a quick index for readers looking for help on a specific topic. It is also used by the Help Team to keep track of the state of the help spection of BRWiki. If you would like to view all pages that are categorized as help, view the help cateogry. You can also look at all the pages in the help namespace. If you are particularly frustrated with the help pages or having problems finding information that can't be summed up in a simple question, please contact the Help Team and leave your comments with them.
[edit] Getting Started
- BRWiki:Policies
- The contents of all the official policies which are in effect on BRWiki.
- Help:Searching & BRWiki:Searching
- Page explaining how to find articles on BRWiki.
To Do:
- These Two articles need to be merged
- The merged article will need to undergo some serious clean up
- Add sections about finding articles based on the naming rules
- Help:Logging_in
- Explains how to log-in and why one should log in?
- Help:Preferences
- An article explaining the different settings in the preferences section.
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- Article needs to be cleaned up
- Help:Special page
- An article explaining what special pages are and what they do.
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- Help:What links here
- Information about the What links here special page.
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- Help:Recent changes
- Information about the Recent changes special page
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- Help:Page history
- Information about the Page History special page.
To Do:
- Needs to be cleaned up and made BRWiki Specific
- Help:Talk page
- Information about talk pages.
To Do:
- Needs to be cleaned up and made BRWiki Specific
- Could likely be expanded to include more information
- Help:Diff
- Information about the diff pages
To Do:
- Needs to be cleaned up and made BRWiki Specific
- BRWiki:FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions about BRWiki.
To Do:
- Old, outdated and FAQ section is currently a mess
[edit] New to BRWiki
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- Find or create help articles that will be quick guides to get semi-experiences users up to speed with BRWiki
- Help:Differences between BRWiki and Wikipedia
- A guide that provides an overview of the major differences editors and readers should be aware of if their previous Wiki experience is Wikipedia (or wikis with similar styles, policies and guidelines).
To Do:
- This article needs to be created.
[edit] Editing BRWiki
- Help:Editing
- The essential guide that provides a large overview on most things you will do with the wiki.
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- Needs to be updated to reflect the proper help guides as well as some minor corrections. Development Page at Help:Editing/Dev
- Lots of link fixes, adding the right template and general cleanup.
- Help:Edit summary
- An article explaining what the edit summary is and how to properly use it.
- Help:Starting a new page
- An Article that explains how to start a new page about a variety of topics.
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- Help:Link
- An article explaining the different types of links and how to properly use them.
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- Help:Interwiki linking
- Provides detailed information about interwiki links.
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- Help:Piped link
- Specific information about using piped links.
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- Needs to be cleaned up
- Could possibly be merged with one of the other link articles
- Help:Self link
- What a self link is.
To Do:
- Probably can just be redirected to the section in Help:link, not a lot of information
- Help:URL
- Specific information about using URLs in BRWiki.
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- BRWiki:How to edit a page
- Quick guide to editing a page.
To Do:
- Can probably be expanded
- Should probably be moved to the help namespace
- Help:Images and other uploaded files
- Information on using images and uploading files.
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- Badly needs to be cleaned up
- Help:Image description page
- Specific information about using and viewing the image description page.
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- Help:Navigational image
- How to create a navigational image.
To Do:
- Needs to be cleaned up
- Needs to have the information presented on it verified and tested.
- Help:Edit toolbar
- Using the edit toolbar.
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- Information needs to be made BRWiki specific and cleaned up
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- How to use HTML in the wiki.
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- Needs to be cleaned up
- Probably should have the information tested and verified
- Help:Section
- Explains using and editing sections
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- Needs to be cleaned up and made BRWiki Specific
[edit] Editing BRWiki - Advanced
- Help:Table
- Information on the different ways of creating tables in BRWiki.
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- Help:Disambiguation
- How to create a disambiguation page.
- Help:Redirect
- How to use redirects.
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- Help:Template
- An article on how to use and create templates.
- Help:Namespace
- An article describing what namespaces are and how you can use them to your advantage.
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- Help:Custom namespaces
- An article describing how to create custom namespaces.
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- Fairly useless for most people, perhaps there should be a section under advanced dedicated to admin articles, or perhaps a whole seperate category that isn't obvious (but is there) for admins.
- Help:Variable
- Explains what variables are available to be used.
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- Help:Renaming (moving) a page
- Information on how to move/rename a page.
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[edit] Additional Help
To Do:
- This section contains links to the help team and reference desk. Needs to be improved with more information.
[edit] The BRWiki community
To Do:
- This section links to the community portal and Where to ask a question, needs to be improved with more information.
[edit] Other Help Pages
- Help:Calculation
- Information about how to use Google in links to do calculations.
To Do:
- Should be expanded to show more ways of getting around special characters in links
- Make sure there are links from such pages as Help:Link
- Help:Edit summary legend
- Provides a quick reference to abbreviations in the edit summary.
- Linked to from the edit summary page.
- Help:Editing_quickref
- A quick reference sheet that provides easy to access information about hard to remember procedures.
- Help:Automatic conversion of wikitext
- The conversion of wikitext, like in signatures.
To Do:
- Figure out where to put it.
- Some information may not be applicable to BRWiki
- Help:Page name
- Technical information about page names.
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- Needs to be cleaned up
- Needs to have a place found for it
- Help:Category
- Information about using categories.
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- Should be sorted and go with Editing level 1.
- Help:Deleting_pages
- Explains how to delete pages.
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- Put it in one of the above categories.
- Help:Related changes
- An article explaining the related changes special page.
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- Categorize it with the other special pages.
- Help:Voting
- An article explaining how to vote.
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- Help:Terminating pages
- An article explaining how to terminate pages.
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