Project talk:PD help

Archive 1

Links
The suggestion this page makes about links are just impossible: links to manual pages and special pages are absolutely needed to make the documentation useful and readable. Nobody respects the current "rule"; the most careful people have been using Mediawiki. I have posted a question about its handling of the special pages links: Template_talk:Mediawiki. Nemo 19:48, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Would also like to have links that that open the page in another window for example target='_blank' in html.. have not seen that done yet. It anoying to have to right click on the link and select open in a new tab all the time.
 * Sorry, what are you talking about? Links to help pages in the interface usually work like this. If you mean standard wikilinks, there's no way to do it and it's discouraged anyway, use your central mouse button. Nemo 18:54, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Centralising help pages
I've filed two bugs which should help this project: --Nemo 22:48, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Bug 44286 – Allow (interwiki) hard redirect whitelisting: this should help avoiding duplication of help pages on wikis which want to be able to link them as local pages.
 * Bug 43591 – Link translatable help pages on mediawiki.org from the relevant special pages: this is necessary to make help pages really discoverable and easy to use; the hard navigation of manuals is often their worse deficiency, more than their content (people are not able to use search, nowadays). en.wiki already does something like this, in a limited and ugly fashion.