Brion Vibber: |Randall Hopper wrote: |>Is there a tarball somewhere of the Help namespace available here: |> |> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents | |At this time we do not have a redistributable set of help pages with |free, non-viral license terms. Ok. Is there any free documentation on Mediawiki formatting that users can put in their wikis? Thanks, Randall

Rob Church: |> > Is there a tarball somewhere of the Help namespace available here: |> > |> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents | |This is something I would like to address, actually. I'd be quite |happy to sort out some help namespace content for redistribution, but |what sort of license would we be after? GFDL? GPL? Public Domain? Thanks! Re the license, it'd be helpful if admins could just dump the pages in as a starter Help: template, and then augment/trim as desired (for unpopulated templates, etc.) without requiring a public release of the changes. Randall

Surely we could release it as part of the documentation of the software itself, and thus under the GNU General Public License; or am I missing something? Regardless, our end-user documentation stinks. Let's get it sorted. Rob Church On 24/10/05, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote: