Thread:User talk:Zakgreant/MediaWiki Technical Documentation Plan/Some History/reply (4)

With regards to having the help docs in the default install, I think we can do both solutions! The new installer is going to (soon) have the ability to (optionally) phone home. The original idea behind this was being able to get statistics on installs and upgrades.

It would be (fairly) trivial to add a post-install step called "Setup help documentation." You could have the option of pulling the documents directly from MediaWiki.org (ensured to be up-to-date), or use the dump we packaged with the install (possibly slightly outdated, was dumped at package time).

At upgrade time, we could offer to pull the updated docs from MW.org, or use the (possibly updated) dump.