Wikibooks:Wikiproject on Help Pages

The Wikiproject on Help Pages was created in order to organize our collective efforts at making wikibooks a welcoming project with easy-to understand help pages, welcome templates, etc.

Organizing this project

How to do it

Suggestion: Use this form to make suggestions

To get started, I suggest we use the form I'm using now to make suggestions. It would be nice to organize from the ground up.

I also suggest that the local voting policy is just done by majority vote, or "most votes". I.e., when choosing the next week's project, we just go by the topic with the most votes. --SB_Johnny | ^talk 16:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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Votes:

• (nominator) --SB_Johnny | ^talk 16:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
• -- I'm for this idea but I don't understand what this vote is for. Is this a vote for the new local voting policy? I'm a little confused by this page (maybe too tired). Xania 19:42, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Suggested Collaborations

Suggestion: Use section-style, as below.

See below the vote line below for what I mean... we can just use this section to come up with a list of weak links, what they depend on, and who supports it for the next collaboration.--SB_Johnny | ^talk 16:37, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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Pages and Topics Needing Attention

Links Within Modules

Problem: many new modules tend to use wikipedia style (term) links, rather than wikibooks style chapter links.

Depends on: Naming policy, welcome template, linking policy (nonexistent), "wikibooks for wikipedians"

Is a prerequisite for: Possible policy on "fixing" redlinks by creating large numbers of soft-redirect pages that lead to wikipedia, which might not be such a good thing.

Votes for collaboration

• --SB_Johnny | ^talk 16:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Attracting contributors to this and the whole project

How to do it

Suggestion

Long sleepless night - if you want the rationale behind this - ask me.

This is not just about "Help" but the whole project here. The issue is getting more people more involved. Although many new accounts are being created few people are becoming involved in the project as a whole. We need to see if we can get at least some of the interested. We need to communicate more effectively with more people.

My suggestion

1. Kick the bulletin board into life. If any of us change improve etc anything that is of interest to the project the onus is on us to use the board to let people know - lets at least do that.
   1. It should be used for any announcements such as RfAs as well as RfBs
   2. I feel the VfDs should be mentioned here. We are currently reviewing a page about Childrens' medicine. If you feel you can help your views will be more than welcome would seem worthwhile for example
   3. There was a discussion on adding to the editor in the staff lounge (it died) but I guess the editors who use it might like to have a say?
   4. By the way no one has actually told editors that BOTM and COTM are suspended
2. Get people to "watch" it. Someone go off and change the help template to add in the idea of it being a good idea to "watch" the bulletin board for news. It will even help people by telling them something about the watchlist idea.
3. Communicate with the many established editors that are around if only to get them to "watch" the bulletin board. I had planned to try and make a list of these anyway so User:Herbythyme/Editors is there for anyone to add to. At least we will know who we would like to try and involve - we can then mail them on their talk pages?

Comments:

• To do that would an "independent" account to post to editors talk pages be useful? --The Staff 10:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

• Good idea --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

• Well you would be more than welcome to use mine for that purpose. Feel free to ask Herby or me for the password (we know each other quite well!) --The staff at Wikibooks 10:25, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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