Project:PD help/Copying

Note: When you edit this page, you agree to release your contribution under the CC0. See Public Domain Help Pages for more info.

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.

File list

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

Currently red links

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

Missing files in distribution

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

Automated copying

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.

See also

• 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.