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Put DiscussionTools / Talk pages project documentation in a consistent place
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Our documentation in scattered around namespaces in mediawiki.org:

Generally I think anything under [[Talk_pages_project]] and sub-pages should be limited to high-level project work, reporting, community consultation, RfCs coordination etc.

Any documentation of features and limitations of things we have built into Extension:DiscussionTools should be in Help:DiscussionTools and sub-pages.

We will be making changes to MediaWiki core, but these features can be documented elsewhere (e.g. changes to the parser, signature linting). If required we can announce those on [[Talk_pages_project]] and/or sub-pages.

We should also review the links we have in the software. Currently a lot of these point to the project pages (e.g. Talk_pages_project/replying). Project pages are going to be short-lived for the duration of the project and eventually become stagnant. In the long term help links within the tool should point to documentation at Help:DiscussionTools or sub-pages.

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Please note that Help: namespace is CC0, while Extension: namespace is CC BY-SA, so moving anything to the Help: namespace requires the express consent of the content’s author(s). (If there’s anything that I contributed, I hereby consent to moving it to Help: namespace.)

Aklapper renamed this task from Put documentation in a consistent place to Put DiscussionTools / Talk pages project documentation in a consistent place.Sep 11 2020, 3:30 PM
Aklapper added a project: Documentation.