User:Raoli/Aiuto

Which road to take for help pages? edit

I made this proposal for some improvements on the help pages and policy of Wikidata. The discussion continues here.

Wikidata:Requests for comment/Which road to take for help pages edit

"What matters are the contents and the easy update." "For now, the English version is minimal, it would be better have anything more practical."

Above there are Restu's words about the following issue. I have noticed that in fact exists some differences between certain languages in some help pages on Wikidata. (Help:Contents vs. Help:Indice, Help:FAQ vs. Help:FAQ/it Help:Editing vs. Help:Editing/it, Wikidata:Tools vs. Wikidata:Strumenti)

To increase the number of participants in this project we have to make things more simple, understandable and attractive as possible. Each user of any level (user without past experience in wiki, wikimedian, expert) should be able to contribute to Wikidata and succeed in understanding at first sight what a rule says or how you can do an action.

The information contained in policies, guidelines or help pages should treat differences in language with care therefore they should be written not in a too theoretical manner but user friendly. For this reason I think it is useful to use screenshots to facilitate the understanding of rules, pages and tools. Likewise representative icons are necessary for many important functions and pages.

What I'm proposing edit

I propose to change the help pages to make them user friendly.
1. In Help:Contents would be better use the graphics of Help:Indice and sort content by topic.
2. In Help:FAQ we need to add more frequently and interesting asked questions as, for example, I have been done in Help:FAQ/it.
3. In Help:Editing we need to use a better picture than that proposed about first phase and link the possible questions concerning this topic from Help:FAQ, as, for example, I have been done in Help:Editing/it.
4. In Wikidata:Tools would be better use the graphics of Wikidata:Strumenti.
5. Some pages would be connected with the {{Nav/First}} and {{Nav/Insights}} navigation templates.
We need to create some pages in Mediawiki related to {{LangSwitch}} template to make sure that all templates and notices can be displayed instantly in multiple languages.