HelpWiki

This is a **proposal for a new** Wikimedia sister project.
Status of the proposal
Status	rejected
Technical requirements
	v; t; e;

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Summary

The Wikimedia community includes more than 700 content wikis, each of which has a Help namespace but there is great variation in how the help pages have been implemented. Where they do exist, help pages often duplicate the ones on other wikis and simply don't exist on other wikis.

To enable greater reliability for users on all the wikis, it is proposed that the Wikimedia Community pursue one of three possibilitiesː

centralize the help pages on Meta.
centralize the help pages on MediaWiki (where there are also other help pages because the software is used by a large number of wikis beyond Wikimedia).
create a global multilingual help wiki for all of the help pages (existing global wikis like Meta, Commons and Wikidata show that such wikis can work).

Whichever option is selected, the help pages should be made available to all other Wikimedia wikis in the same way that global user pages can be viewed on any Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikivoyage. If a particular wiki does not have a particular help page, it would show the global help page. However, it would also be possible to create a local page at any time that would prevent the global page from displaying. For another example, any Wikimedia Commons file page can be viewed on other wikis, but all of them can upload a new file which prevents the Commons file page from being displayed.

Proposed by[edit]

Thunderhead (Wikimedia Help)
Sannaj (Wikihelps)
Green Giant

Alternative names[edit]

Wikimedia Help
WikiHelp

Related projects/proposals[edit]

Wikimedia Help, on which this proposal is based
Strategy:Proposal:Wikimedia Help, which is the same proposal on the now-closed Strategy Wiki
Wikihelps, a previously closed proposal with a similar aim

Domain names[edit]

https://help.wikimedia.org

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People interested[edit]

Green Giant (talk) 22:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC) (as one of the proposers)[reply]
--Samuele2002 (talk) 19:32, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
as across wiki users I can tell, that's a well-known problem. Whatever is the final decision, i hope I can help.
--Youni Verciti (talk) 14:31, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
-- Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 15:51, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support . This would not be MediaWiki pages, because would be centered in WikiMedia projects' common help (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource and so on, excluding general Mediawiki help). Adding could be used for specific information for a MW Project, but essentially the page would be the same for all the Projects.--BoldLuis (talk) 22:42, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support .--Kitabc12345 (talk) 05:00, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
--Tmv (talk) 01:13, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Hérisson grognon 12:57, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]