Project:Manual
This page is for the discussion and co-ordination of the MediaWiki Manual. The manual is located in the Important Note: A lot of the pages in Meta's MediaWiki Handbook will ultimately be moved to the manual, however please do not move these pages manually at this stage. See below for details.
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Contents
Content
For general information about what should go in which namespace, see Project:Namespaces.
- What content should be in the Manual: namespace?
- Information on setting up a new wiki
- Information on moving/upgrading/exporting/importing
- Documentation for maintenance scripts
- Information about hooks/API/Database layout etc.
- What should not be in the Manual: namespace?
- Basic help on using and editing. This belongs in the Help: namespace
- Extensions and tools, that are not part of the default MediaWiki distribution. (Extension: namespace)
Content from Meta
There is a lot of content on Meta that should be moved to this site. Please do not move pages by hand! There is a project to co-ordinate this move at meta which will give you full details. Once we are in a position to do so, the relevant pages will be moved here in a way that preserves their history.
Structure
Some discussion has been had regarding the layout of the Manual: namespace, but no formal decision has been made. The main debate is whether Manual pages should be organized in a flat hierarchy, with all pages at the root level, or with subtopics as subpages of the main topics. Here is where prior discussion has taken place:
Editorial guidelines
Formatting
to be discussed
Colors
to be discussed
Screenshots
- Use http://test.leuksman.com/view/Main_Page for taking screenshots (note: currently not working)
- Screenshots should be cut to show only the relevant part of the site (no browser surroundings).
Tables
to be discussed
Naming scheme non-English pages
Some general discussions about internationalisation are at Project:Language policy.