Forum:Shared Help

Recently, we all received messages telling about Wikia's Shared Help extension, which Wikia plans to enable on every wiki on the 19th. Since Shared Helps is currently being used on the OblivioWiki and Elder Scrolls Fanon, I would like to tell you about this new feature.

Our current (now past) Help namespace was small and outdated. There only a few contributors who would edit this namespace. However, there's a entire wiki devoted to the Help namespace. This is the Help wiki. The contributors there make sure that the articles in their Help namespace are always up to date and have quality. As a result, Wikia believes that it would benefit every wiki if every wiki had easy access to the Help wiki's Help pages. In order to accomplish this, the Shared Help extension was created.

The Shared Help extension brings the Help wiki closer to us. The extension replaces the local Help namespace of a wiki with that of the Help wiki. This can be seen here, for example. Also, Help:Contents becomes an index to all the pages in the Help wiki, so Help pages are easily found. The Help wiki is also helpful in providing a way to view new extensions offered by Wikia.

In order to install Shared Help here, I had to delete every page in the current (now past) Help namespace. In addition, I moved Help pages unique to Star Wars Fanon like Frequently Asked Questions to the Project ("Star Wars Fanon") namespace. However, there are still some red links, but they should be gone once Shared Help is installed.

Shared Help will come to Star Wars anon around the 19th. I hope you enjoy it. For more information, please see w:Forum:Shared Help - new feature! -- Michaeldsuarez  ( Talk ) ( Deeds ) 13:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Note: Suggestions for improvements to Shared Help should be make at w:Forum:Shared Help - new feature!.