FORwiki:Manual

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This page is for discussion and co-ordination of the MediaWiki Manual. The manual is located in the Manual: namespace and is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. Note that manual content must be kept completely separate from the PD Help pages located in the Help: namespace, as they are released under a different, incompatible license (see Project:Copyrights for details).

Contents 1 Content 1.1 Content from Meta 2 Editorial guidelines 2.1 Formatting 2.2 Colors 2.3 Screenshots 2.4 Tables 2.5 Naming scheme non-English pages

Content

For general information about what should go in which namespace, see Project:Namespaces.

• What content should be in the Manual: namespace?
  • Information on setting up a new wiki
  • Information on moving/upgrading/exporting/importing
  • Documentation for maintenance scripts
  • Information about hooks/API/Database layout etc.
• What should not be in the Manual: namespace?
  • Basic help on using and editing. This belongs in the Help: namespace
  • Extensions and tools, that are not part of the default MediaWiki distribution. (Extension: namespace)

Content from Meta

There is a lot of content on Meta that should be moved to this site. Please do not move pages by hand! There is a project to co-ordinate this move at meta which will give you full details. Once we are in a position to do so, the relevant pages will be moved here in a way that preserves their history.

Editorial guidelines

Formatting

to be discussed

Colors

to be discussed

Screenshots

• Screenshots should be cut to show only the relevant part of the site (no browser surroundings).

Tables

to be discussed

Naming scheme non-English pages

Some general discussions about internationalisation are at Project:Current issues#Languages.