Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Help

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• Main page
• Feedback at MediaWiki
• Sandbox (no account required)

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About

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• Documentation:
  • Introductory tutorial
  • User guide
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Frequently Asked Questions (or at MediaWiki)
• Development:
  • Roadmap up to 2017
  • Updates (2013-2023)
  • Weekly status reports (2015-2016)

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Help out

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• Update the help pages
• Add template data (Tutorial)
• Translate and localize documentation

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Research

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• Main research page

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Other

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• Why are the developers building this? (2013)
  • User Test Data (2013)
• Customization
• Known problems
• Requests for Comments (RfCs): Jul 2013 a, Jul 2013 b, Jul 2015, Sep 2015

One of the most pressing needs related to the deployment of the VisualEditor is the changes that will be required to the various Help pages on the project. Over the years, volunteers have created content to help new editors figure out the wiki markup language. Unfortunately, the new editing platform now needs new help pages. A lot of documentation is written for the source editor, which new users will no longer be presented with by default.

Every Wikipedia needs to work on this; we recommend the User Guide for the new editing interface as a good place to take content from. For the English-language Wikipedia, the Help contents page might be a good places to work from, since it's the most prominent link new users are given to editing tutorials. Additionally, if enwiki succeeds in updating most of the help pages, the User Guide needs to be translated and incorporated across the projects. If you have language skills in some of the languages of our smaller wikis, your help is much desired!

Resources

• Help:Contents
  • Help:Contents/Directory (VE listed under "Contributor information" section)
• List of Wikipedias
• User Guide

enWikipedia "to do"

Add specific English Wikipedia help pages and other items that need updating. When complete, add a Y to indicate their completion or  Half done if just a note added.

• Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia  Half done note added to direct user to VE User guide (in the "How to edit" section)
• Wikipedia:Tutorial
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing  Half done note added to direct user to VE User guide (at bottom of page)
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources
• Help:Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing  Half done note added to direct user to VE User guide (in lead and more info at bottom of page)
• Wikipedia:Plain and simple#How to do anything  Half done note added to direct user to VE User guide (in lead of section)
• Help:Editing  Half done note added to direct user to VE User guide (in lead).
• Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Editing for the First Time  Half done note added to direct user to VE User guide (at bottom of page)
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Documenting Your Sources
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Setting Up Your Account and Personal Workspace
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Creating a New Article
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Who Did What: Page Histories and Reverting
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Dealing with Vandalism and Spam
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and Illustrating Articles/Article Sections and Tables of Contents
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and Illustrating Articles/Creating Lists and Tables
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and Illustrating Articles/Adding Images
  • Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Building a Stronger Encyclopedia/Categorizing Articles