Project:PD help/Copying

You can obtain a copy of the help system in this wiki for local use in your own wiki following these steps:


 * 1) In a separate browser window, navigate to Special:Export (on this wiki). You will see an open textbox asking you for a list of pages to export.
 * 2) Copy the list below and paste it into that textbox. This is a generally useful set, making the resulting help structure in your wiki look almost identical to the one here.
 * 3) Make sure the box "Include only the current revision, not the full history" is checked.
 * 4) Click the 'Export' button.
 * 5) Save the file to your desktop or other convenient location you'll remember.
 * 6) Navigate to Special:Import on your wiki. Note that you must be logged in as an Admin/Sysop (or another user with the import ) to do this.
 * 7) Browse for the file you saved, and click 'Upload file'.
 * 8) Navigate to Special:Imagelist (on this wiki).
 * 9) For each image referenced below, click on the (file) link and save the image to the same location as before.
 * 10) Navigate to Special:Upload in your wiki and upload each of the images.

You will probably have to edit some of the pages to fix links, but at least this will provide a starting point.

You will also probably need so that the Languages bar at the bottom of the pages functions properly.

Also keep in mind that most default wiki installations do not support SVG images. Information about SVG support can be found in the page.

File list
Help:Contents Help:Navigation Help:Searching Help:Tracking_changes Help:Editing Help:Editing_pages Help:Starting_a_new_page Help:Formatting Help:Links Help:Talk_pages Help:Categories Help:Images Help:Subpages Help:Templates Help:Tables Help:Variables Help:Managing_files Help:Magic_words Help:Moving_a_page Help:Redirects Help:Deleting_a_page Help:Protected pages Help:Preferences Help:Skins Help:Namespaces Help:Blocking users Help:Range_blocks Help:Special pages Help:External searches Help:User_page Help:Sysops_and_permissions Help:Protecting_and_unprotecting_pages Help:Sysop_deleting_and_undeleting Help:Patrolled edits Help:Assigning permissions Help:Linked images Category:Help Template:PD_Help_Page Template:PD Template:Mediawiki Template:Note Template:Admin_tip Template:Prettytable Template:Hl2 Template:Hl3 Template:Thankyou Template:Click Template:Languages Template:Languages/Lang Template:Note Image:Bulbgraph.png Image:Example.jpg Image:Example-white-bg.jpg Image:Geographylogo.png Image:PD-icon.svg Image:PD-Help icon.png Image:Tools.svg Image:M-en-sidebar.png Image:M-en-userlinks.png Image:M-en-pagetabs.png Image:M-en-recentchanges.png Image:M-en-interwiki lang.png

Currently red links
Move to the above list when these non-orphan help pages get written: Help:Watchlist

Automated copying
If you use pywikipedia, there is a script to automate the copying at http://mediawiki-tools.cvs.sourceforge.net/mediawiki-tools/pywikipedia/mirrorhelp.py, which copies all pages in the help namespace along with templates and images directly referenced by those.