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Bug 19140 - "Help:Editing" page does not exist
Summary: "Help:Editing" page does not exist
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: webplatform.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: infrastructure (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Doug Schepers
QA Contact: public-webplatform-bugs list
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Reported: 2012-09-29 11:15 UTC by Janet Swisher
Modified: 2012-10-29 10:37 UTC (History)
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Description Janet Swisher 2012-09-29 11:15:13 UTC
Clicking "Editing Help" at the bottom of the editor gives you a "page does not exist" page.

Doesn't this page get installed by MediaWiki?
Comment 1 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-29 02:30:36 UTC
I think due to the usage of forms we should create our own Help:Editing page since the default one is for using the default editor which is not in use on most pages.  There are also a few tricks to editing our system that need to be addressed there as well.
Comment 2 Chris Mills 2012-10-29 10:18:13 UTC
A lot of this kind of material is contained in multiple pages, e.g. http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Getting_Started#References. Should we reorganize this material into a more logical single entity, and then point to it from the Help:Editing page, or just create that page and turn it into an index for all those types of page?
Comment 3 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-29 10:19:47 UTC
Yea, I also noticed the Gotcha page would be good to link to.  I really think compared to redoing the content we should just make Help:Editing a portal to other pages to get help from.

Should this page be made using the API or the normal create page process?
Comment 4 Chris Mills 2012-10-29 10:22:35 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Yea, I also noticed the Gotcha page would be good to link to.  I really
> think compared to redoing the content we should just make Help:Editing a
> portal to other pages to get help from.
> 
> Should this page be made using the API or the normal create page process?

I'm not 100% about this; Doug or someone else would be better positioned to give us an answer, after which I would be happy to implement it.
Comment 5 Jonathan Garbee 2012-10-29 10:37:55 UTC
psh.  We don't need them, we just need to read the pages. ;)

Excerpt from a missing page: " If you are creating a content page (that is, a page without a namespace in front), do not create the page manually. "

Since this is under the Help: namespace we use the standard creation method for MediaWiki.  i.e. Not using forms (WPD:New_Page) but using the create page link.