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:

1. 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.
2. Copy the 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.
3. Check the following boxes:
   • "Include only the current revision, not the full history" (Important!)
   • "Include templates"
   • "Save as file"
4. Click the "Export" button.
5. Save the file to your desktop or other convenient location you'll remember.
6. Navigate to Special:Import on your wiki. Note that you must be logged in as an Admin/Sysop (or another user with the import right) to do this.
7. Browse for the file you saved, and click "Upload file".
8. Navigate to Special:Imagelist (on this wiki).
9. For each image referenced below, click on the (file) link and save the image to the same location as before.
10. 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 need Extension:ParserFunctions and Extension:Scribunto to allow most of the included templates to work.

Also keep in mind that most default wiki installations do not support SVG images. Information about SVG support can be found in the Manual:Image administration#SVG page.

Help:User rights and groups   
Help:Blocking users   
Help:Bots   
Help:Categories   
Help:Contents   
Help:Editing   
Help:Editing pages   
Help:External searches   
Help:Formatting   
Help:Images   
Help:Lists   
Help:Links   
Help:Links/example   
Help:Magic words   
Help:Managing files   
Help:Merge history   
Help:Moving a page   
Help:Namespaces   
Help:Cite   
Help:Navigation   
Help:New images   
Help:New pages   
Help:Patrolled edits   
Help:Preferences   
Help:Protected pages   
Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages   
Help:Random page   
Help:Range blocks   
Help:Recent changes   
Help:Redirects   
Help:Searching   
Help:Signatures   
Help:Skins   
Help:Special pages   
Help:Starting a new page   
Help:Subpages   
Help:Subpages/subpage   
Help:Subpages/subpage/sub-subpage   
Help:Deletion and undeletion   
Help:Sysops and permissions   
Help:Tables   
Help:Talk pages   
Help:Templates   
Help:Tracking changes   
Help:Transclusion   
Help:Undelete   
Help:User page   
Help:Variables   
Help:Watchlist   
Help:Parser functions in templates   
Template:Meta   
Template:Anchor   
Template:Thankyou   
Module:Template translation
Category:Help   
File:Arr r.png
File:Attention niels epting.svg
File:Bulbgraph.png
File:Example.jpg
File:Example-white-bg.jpg
File:Geographylogo.png
File:Heckert GNU white.svg
File:MediaWiki Skin Vector.png
File:M-en-pagetabs.png
File:M-en-recentchanges.png
File:M-en-sidebar.png
File:PD-Help icon.png
File:PD-icon.svg
File:Tools.svg

Move to the above list when these non-orphan help pages get written:

Not including Help namespace pages yet.

• File:Button sig.png
• File:Example.pdf
• File:Transclusion-multiple-foo.png
• File:Transclusion-multiple-twit.png
• File:Transclusion-simple.png
• Template:Fmbox
• Template:Main other
• Template:Purge
• Template:Documentation
• Template:En pagename - it seem to break the PD help guidelines
• Template:Tlx

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

• Manual:Page customizations - lists wiki pages that MediaWiki messages link to, you may wish to copy mediawiki.org or some other wiki's versions of these pages.

• Help