Help talk:Extension:FlaggedRevs

Since a lot of people editing this particular help page are not active on mediawiki.org generally, there are a few special considerations here that don't apply anywhere else. First and foremost, remember that the edits you make to the help page are released into the public domain, so anyone can use them for any purpose. If you don't want that, don't edit :D. Secondly, remember that this documentation must be "site-neutral": this is the main website for all X many thousands of wiki installations on the web, not just wikimedia, and not just wikipedia. As such, we need to avoid wikipedia-specific content: no links to en.wiki discussions, and avoid wikipedia-specific terminology, even things like NPOV and BLP: other wikis might not have the same considerations. This is supposed to be a completely neutral explanation of how the system works, not how it might be used.

By far the most important thing is to get the content actually on the page; style and presentation issues can be resolved later. Remember that this should be aimed mainly at the lay-user: an editor who is aware of how to edit but knows nothing of the intricacies of the MediaWiki interface. Obviously this general rule needs to bend a bit in cases: when talking about how FlaggedRevs affects the recent changes feed, naturally we assume that the reader of that section knows what the recent changes feed is. Similarly the section describing admin actions is aimed at administrators. But in general, pitch the documentation at the lowest level that's sensible.

Much can be gleaned from the implementations currently in operation on Wikimedia, including en.labs, test.wiki and de.wiki (although remember that all content, including screenshots should be in English). There is also loads of information available to those who can read the appropriate 'language', at the manual here, the source code on SVN, the Wikimedia config files, and all over en.wiki. Don't hesitate to raise any questions here or elsewhere; hopefully this can be a learning process for all of us.

Many thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide, Happy ‑ melon 19:03, 28 January 2009 (UTC)