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Re-organize wikitech:Help:Toolforge documentation
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https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge could be a lot better organized and written. Let's do it!

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@yuvipanda and I met, see http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/tool_labs-doc . We discussed other pages and made a bunch of immediate cleanups , but we didn't get all the way through Help:Tool_Labs so we didn't completely figure out its restructure.

Some principles:

  • one quick start
  • move most sections to subpages
  • avoid repeating info that's on other wikitech Help pages; on the other hand Help:Tool_Labs can provide help specific to Tool Labs rather than adapted Wikimedia Labs help.
  • remove Toolsbeta, only mention on some admin page
  • link to wikitech's Help:Terminology

The cleanup to the http://tools.wmflabs.org/ home page should probably be a separate task (subtask?) since it uses a different system.

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Aklapper renamed this task from Re-organize Tool Labs documentation to Re-organize wikitech:Help:Toolforge documentation.Jan 10 2022, 6:30 PM
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This ticket saw its last activity in 2015.
The page in question saw huge changes in 2019: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Toolforge&limit=500&action=history
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Assigned to @srodlund to give credit where credit is due for leading the work on this through other tickets and objectives over the last 3-4 years.