On 6 Apr 2005, at 14:50, Brion Vibber wrote:
Josh Santangelo wrote:
Is there any way to import the entire "help" namespace from wikimedia into my installation?
There's not a standalone help page set available at this time.
The way I punted this was to go into the php files and change a very few entry points to point directly to Meta help pages.
As I recall, simply putting "Meta:" in two links: "[[Help:Contents]]" and "[[Help:Editing]]" covered most of the places were end users were exposed to help. There may be a third, more obscure link I did that to as well.
Example: go to http://www.IslandSeeds.org/wiki and pick "Help" from the links on the left.
This has advantages and disadvantages. Your users need to be sophisticated enough to recognize that they're being zapped away from your site. It helps on messy-desktop windowing systems to open help in a new window. In certain brain-dead neat-desktop windowing systems, it unfortunately is just one more of many confusing things to deal with.
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