Hi,
Thanks for your effort, Erik - but I cannot imagine how to get to a
multilingual MediaWiki documentation soon. Not only MediaWiki but also
Wikipedia (at least the German one) lacks a clean documentation. How do
you want to seperate both?
You wrote:
That means you can now edit Hilfe:Inhalt or Aide:Aide
like the English
users have been editing Help:Contents. Why is that important? Because it
allows us to easily export all the help files in one language, and import
them into another wiki.
Import how? Do you want to make the Help:-Namespace on local Wikipedia
read-only and dynamically mirror the localised pages from meta? What
does happen to the (indeed messy) documentation at each Wikipedia?
Once the pages have stabilized, we should clean out
the Help: namespaces
of all Wikimedia projects and import the meta pages instead. We can then
upgrade them regularly (even daily) and automatically on all wikis.
Seems like a hen and egg problem.
I just doubt you get Wikipedia users writing documentation at meta, because:
1. There is no single log-in (and with this a single watchlist!)
2. You better document the Wikipedia you are working on. This includes
documenting MediaWiki but there is no sense to seperate for a Wikipedian
I tried to integrate MediaWiki and Wikipedia documentation at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Inhalt
but I better do it within the German Wikipedia in the Help-Namespace.
Once the pages have stabilized, we should clean out the meta:Hilfe
namespaces and import the de:Hilfe pages instead. We can then
upgrade them regularly (even daily) and automatically on all wikis.
Greetings,
Jakob