Cross-posting to Wikien-l...
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Erik Moellererik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Unfortunately, community-created help pages tend to accumulate vast amounts of instruction cruft that distracts from simple high-level information.
Maybe it's time English Wikipedia (at least) created a set of standards for help pages and a process for identifying good ones. "Manual of Style (help pages)", "Helpful help page candidates" and "What is a helpful help page?", anyone? (The latter two are only half facetious; the first is probably a good idea, although I would have no idea where to start.)
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)