EiWiki - User contributions [en]

Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting

2009-07-04T07:15:05Z

IAlex: Reverted edits by 216.10.193.22 (Talk) to last revision by Splarka

{{PD Help Page}}
'''Deleting a page''' is a straightforward operation for anyone with [[Help:Sysops and permissions|sysop permissions]]. Users without such permissions can still remove text from wiki pages, or propose/request that a page should be deleted. See [[Help:Deleting a page]].

== Before deleting ==
Sysops should also be aware of the general advice given on [[Help:Deleting a page]] (In particular, note that there are many situations where a deleting is too drastic. Often a redirect is more appropriate for example)

Before deleting you could perform various checks:
* Use the "What links here" tool. This gives an indication as to how important a page is, and what subjects it relates to. Perhaps the page is still linked to prominently from many places. All incoming links will become red links if you proceed with the delete. Ideally all incoming links should be changed/removed, if there is genuinely no need for this page to exist. You could do this work prior to deleting, or ask others in the wiki community to do it.
* Check the page history and the associated talk page. Who was proposing the deletion? Does anyone disagree? Has it been properly discussed? Did people have adequate time to raise objections? Did somebody vandalise a page, which then led to a deletion proposal?

The care taken over these things might depend on the size of the wiki community, and how clear-cut the case for deletion is. Remember that only sysop users can undo a delete action, so to a normal user the information appears to be lost forever.

== Use the 'delete' tab ==
Sysops should see a 'delete' tab at the top of every page. Click this to delete the page. You will be asked to confirm, and to supply a "Reason for deletion". This is a short textual description of why the page is being deleted. Your action will appear on the recent changes display, and in the deletion log ([[Special:Log]]).

== Undeleting ==
To undelete a page you must navigate to the exact page name of the page. You can find this in the deletion log ([[Special:Log]]) if you dont remember it.

You should then see a link to "View or restore n deleted edits". Tick the box next to the revision you wish to restore.

==Configuring deletion reasons==
The list of reasons in the dropdown box is maintained at [[MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown]].

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EiWiki:Manual

2009-07-02T14:29:21Z

IAlex: Reverted edits by 41.201.50.151 (Talk) to last revision by Purodha

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<big>'''This page is for discussion and co-ordination of the MediaWiki Manual.'''</big>

The manual is located in the <tt>Manual:</tt> namespace (starting at [[Manual:Contents]]) and is released under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]. Note that manual content must be kept <i>completely separate</i> from the PD Help pages located in the <tt>Help:</tt> namespace, as they are released under a different, incompatible license (see [[Project:Copyrights]] for details).

'''''Important Note:''' A lot of the pages in [[meta:Help:Contents|Meta's MediaWiki Handbook]] will ultimately be moved to the manual, ''however'' please do not move these pages manually at this stage. See below for details.''
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== 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 [[Manual:Maintenance_scripts | 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 [[meta:Meta:MetaProject to transfer content to MediaWiki.org|(here's the link)]] 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.

== Structure ==
Some discussion has been had regarding the layout of the Manual: namespace, but no formal decision has been made. Here is where prior discussion has taken place:

* [[User_talk:Bdk#Config._stuff]]
* [[Manual:Flat namespace]]
* [[Project:Current issues#Page Hierarchy]]

== Editorial guidelines ==
=== Formatting ===
to be discussed

=== Colors ===
to be discussed

=== Screenshots ===
* Use http://test.leuksman.com/view/Main_Page for taking screenshots (note: currently not working)
* 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]].

[[Category:Manual| ]]

EiWiki:Copyrights

2009-06-29T17:05:51Z

IAlex: GFDL -> CC-BY-SA

== Licenses on MediaWiki.org ==

All textual content of MediaWiki.org is released under one of two licenses.

* The public domain help pages are, as the name implies, released into the [[w:public domain|public domain]] (PD)
* All other pages are released under the [[w:Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported]] license (CC-BY-SA).

Both licenses allow anyone to re-use the content in any way they choose. This includes charging money for access to the content, distributing it wherever and however they like, and modifying it in any way they see fit. The main differences between the two licenses are:

* If you alter CC-BY-SA content, your changes must also be released under the CC-BY-SA.
* Any use of CC-BY-SA content must provide credit to the authors.

''Note: This is a very basic comparison to highlight the main points. There are other differences that have not been mentioned here. Please seek proper legal advice if you are in any doubt about what you are and are not allowed to do with material released under either license.''

Image-specific permissions are located on the images' description pages.

== How to spot the license ==

The public domain help pages are all contained within the 'help' namespace. This means that their page titles will all begin '''Help:''' (for example [[Help:Contents]]). They have also been given a <span style="color: #0000CC">'''thick blue border'''</span> to make them stand out (as you can see if you follow the above link).

== Considerations for PD contributors ==

If you are going to contribute to the PD help pages, please ensure that ''all'' contributions come from public domain sources. This means that either you have written it yourself, or you have copied it from another source that is ''clearly and unambiguously'' released into the public domain.

Most importantly, '''do not contribute content released under the CC-BY-SA or GFDL''' or any other 'open' license. It may appear that this is acceptable, because there is a certain amount of similarity between the licenses, but ''PD is not compatible with any other license'' in the way that the content with any other license can't be relicensed into PD (except that you are the author of the content). However, PD content can always be relicensed into any license.

In particular:
* Do not copy or transfer content from [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ meta.wikimedia.org], [[w:|Wikipedia]] or any other Wikimedia projects into the Help: namespace as they are all released under the CC-BY-SA. You may of course copy it to other places on MediaWiki.org, however.
* Within the site, do not move pages from any other namespaces into the Help: namespace.

The exception to the above rules is if you are the sole author of content for a page, in which case you may relicense your own material by posting it to the Help: namespace as public domain. Note that this is a '''one way''' process - you cannot change your mind once it has been done!

== See also ==

* [[Project:General disclaimer|General disclaimer]]
* [[Project:PD Help|Public domain help pages]]
* [[Project:Fair use policy|Fair use policy]]

[[Category:MediaWiki.org website|Copyright]]

EiWiki:PD help/Copying

2009-06-09T20:58:11Z

IAlex: Reverted edits by 41.238.0.35 (Talk) to last version by Iraikov

{{PD Help Page}}

{{move|Project:PD help/Copying}}

You can obtain copies of the help system in this wiki for local use in your own wiki following these steps:

# In a separate browser window, navigate to [[Special:Export]] (on '''this''' wiki). You will see an open textbox asking you for a list of pages to export.
# Copy the [[#File_list|list]] below and paste it into that textbox. This is a generally useful set, making the resulting help structure in your wiki look almost identical to the one here.
# Check the following boxes:
#*"Include only the current revision, not the full history" ('''Important!''')
#*"Include templates"
#*"Save as file"
# Click the 'Export' button.
# Save the file to your desktop or other convenient location you'll remember.
# Navigate to Special:Import on '''your''' wiki. Note that you must be logged in as an Admin/Sysop (or another user with the import {{mediawiki|Manual:User rights|right}}) to do this.
# Browse for the file you saved, and click 'Upload file'.
# Navigate to [[Special:Imagelist]] (on '''this''' wiki).
# For each image referenced below, click on the (file) link and save the image to the same location as before.
# Navigate to Special:Upload in '''your''' wiki and upload each of the images.

You will probably have to edit some of the pages to fix links, but at least this will provide a starting point.

You will also probably need {{mediawiki|Extension:ParserFunctions}} so that the Languages bar at the bottom of the pages functions properly.

Also keep in mind that most default wiki installations do not support SVG images. Information about SVG support can be found in the {{mediawiki|Manual:Image_Administration#SVG}} page.

==File list==
[[Help:Assigning permissions]]
[[Help:Blocking users]]
[[Help:Categories]]
[[Help:Contents]]
[[Help:Deleting a page]]
[[Help:Editing]]
[[Help:Editing pages]]
[[Help:External searches]]
[[Help:Formatting]]
[[Help:Images]]
[[Help:Linked images]]
[[Help:Links]]
[[Help:Magic words]]
[[Help:Managing files]]
[[Help:Moving a page]]
[[Help:Namespaces]]
[[Help:Navigation]]
[[Help:Patrolled edits]]
[[Help:Preferences]]
[[Help:Protected pages]]
[[Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages]]
[[Help:Range blocks]]
[[Help:Redirects]]
[[Help:Searching]]
[[Help:Signatures]]
[[Help:Skins]]
[[Help:Special pages]]
[[Help:Starting a new page]]
[[Help:Subpages]]
[[Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting]]
[[Help:Sysops and permissions]]
[[Help:Tables]]
[[Help:Talk pages]]
[[Help:Templates]]
[[Help:Tracking changes]]
[[Help:User page]]
[[Help:Variables]]
[[Help:Watchlist]]
[[:Category:Help]]
[[Template:Admin tip]]
[[Template:Hl2]]
[[Template:Hl3]]
[[Template:Languages]]
[[Template:Languages/Lang]]
[[Template:Mediawiki]]
[[Template:Note]]
[[Template:PD]]
[[Template:PD Help Page]]
[[Template:Prettytable]]
[[Template:Thankyou]]
[[:Image:Bulbgraph.png]]
[[:Image:Example.jpg]]
[[:Image:Example-white-bg.jpg]]
[[:Image:Geographylogo.png]]
[[:Image:M-en-interwiki lang.png]]
[[:Image:M-en-pagetabs.png]]
[[:Image:M-en-recentchanges.png]]
[[:Image:M-en-sidebar.png]]
[[:Image:M-en-userlinks.png]]
[[:Image:PD-Help icon.png]]
[[:Image:PD-icon.svg]]
[[:Image:Tools.svg]]

===Currently red links===
Move to the above list when these non-orphan help pages get written:

==Automated copying==

If you use pywikipedia, there is a script to automate the copying at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sanbeg/mirrorhelp.py , which copies all pages in the help namespace along with templates and images directly referenced by those.

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Help:Patrolling

2008-12-20T08:25:02Z

IAlex: fixes

{{PD Help Page}}

'''Patrolling''' is the term used to describe when multiple users are reviewing alterations to the wiki in order to verify that they comply with the wiki rules. This is performed in order to quickly undo undesirable edits, link spam, copyright violations and vandalism.

After reviewing a change, people can mark changes as having been "patrolled" or "approved", which allows other people to skip that change and review another change. This allows people (those who can see it) to coordinate their patrolling activity, such that edits gets checked over once, but with less wasted effort (different people checking the same edit)

The two patrolling mechanisms are:
* [[Help:Patrolled edits|Patrolled edits]]
* [[Help:Patrolled pages|Patrolled pages]]

== See also ==
* {{meta|Help:Patrolled edit|Further reading on the Meta-Wiki}}

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