On 10/21/07, Oskar Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sorry, but "missing manual"? We
have excellent help pages that
will guide a newbie through everything from just starting to writing
featured articles to resolving the most entrenched disputes.
[[Help:Tutorial]] is an excellent place to start.
We have help pages, but with all due respect to the people who wrote
them, they are not "excellent". Compare our tutorial to the one
created by WikiEducator:
http://wikieducator.org/Help:Contents
That one contains audio messages and screencasts, and is pedagogically
structured with objectives, activities, and assessments. When I
organize wiki workshops, I usually point people to this as a
reference, rather than our own internal help.
I think Wikimedia in general (although I'm only thinking of
en.wikipedia, commons and MediaWiki) isn't very good at producing very
good help and documentation. I think it's because writing this kind of
documentation seems dull next to using our time to produce content.
What could be done to improve our documentation and recruit more
people to documentation/help-writing?
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