Extension:ArticleCreationHelp

The ArticleCreationHelp extension helps users learn to create new articles effectively. It provides popups over red links and an article creation landing page.

Dependencies

 * Guided Tour extension
 * Event Logging extension

Appropriateness for Various Mediawiki Configurations
The behaviour of this extension is appropriate for wikis where users must log in to create articles (like on Wikipedia). It hasn't yet been adapted for other possible MediaWiki configurations.

Documentation
See [[media:Article_creation_help_overview.pdf|this document]] for graphs of this workflow and a summary of related issues.

Git Repository
Some rough bits of code are here:

https://github.com/AndrewGreen/mediawiki-extensions-ArticleCreationHelp

2013-08-29

 * Reorganized  with a clean separation of concerns and JS objects.
 * In GuidedTour, implemented a different option for dynamic tour modification, described here. Includes a silly animation&mdash;to see it, make sure your're logged out, then hover/click on a red link, and click on "Learn more".

Coming soon: logging!!!