Talk:Documentation

Duplication of Information
It seems to me that the info on How_does_MediaWiki_work%3F and Documentation are very similar. With a few tweaks, I propose that the two pages be merged into a page called something like "About MediaWiki".


 * Doesn't seem so, to me. robchurch | talk 00:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Typos
I think the 'please read it first before posing any questions' text should be changed to 'please read it first before posting any questions'.


 * Done. robchurch | talk 00:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

lusiano
How to turn off access to history pages to all user except to selected user?


 * Not possible with MediaWiki at this time; we won't support this in the future, either. robchurch | talk 00:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Why not? This is a very useful feature, especially if you have sensitive pages where you want just one or a few people to be able to see what was there before.

--203.184.36.144 01:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Because that doesn't fit in with the purpose or goals of MediaWiki. 86.134.116.228 08:34, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Invalid link
The "complete FAQ" link leads to an obsolete page, as per the page itself. It should link to Help:FAQ if I am correct.


 * Seems to do so now. robchurch | talk 00:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Downloadable version of Documentation
Is there a way to download the documentation for offline browsing? Perhaps a snapshot of the current state of the documentation or whatever would be nice.


 * The documentation is still sparse, and what little we have is under a mismash of licences. When we have something to release, we'll do so, but we don't right now. :) robchurch | talk 00:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

CVS-related docs on SourceForge no longer exist
Dear all,

the CVS-related docs on SourceForge, mentioned in the article, don't exist anymore. MediaWiki now uses Subversion, and indeed a link for it is on the left.

Unfortunately, the newcomers (like myself :)) will have a hard time to find it out. I tried to update the link, but the page is not available for editing.

Could someone please correct it. My suggestion would be to replace


 * The docs directory on SourceForge provides other CVS-related documentation.

with


 * The docs directory provides other Subversion-related documentation.

Of course it could be rephrased for better...

Publish?
I removed this from the note at the end of the page because it and looks inaccurate and does not makes sense to me:
 * It is also planned to publish a complete MediaWiki Manual, that is in the public domain, but still has to be written.

Please clarify and substantiate it if you want to put it back. Thanks. --Rogerhc 20:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Invalid link (again)
The link to the discussion page of the FAQ is incorrect again. It looks like it needs to link to Manual_talk:FAQ. Stack 22:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks - fixed. --HappyDog 03:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)