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:: I support the general idea of reviving our own help pages. One project I have on my long-term to-do list is to create some form of tutorial series on the technical aspects of wiki editing, like template creation. While not exactly the same as what you're proposing here, I felt that it was similar enough to bring up: anything that helps us gain new editors by making it easier for them to learn is good. As an admin, I also cannot view the edit history of our old, CC-redirecting, help pages in the normal way either. However, what I can do is use [[Special:MergeHistory]] to merge the edit history of these lost pages into some other page which then lets you view them. As a test, I did this on [[T:FAITH]] and recovered the edit history to [[User:Bongolium500/T:FAITH]]. I can do this for other pages on request. Examining the edit history shows that there never actually was anything there. We will probably need to create a lot of these pages from scratch. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:52, 25 May 2023 (UTC) | :: I support the general idea of reviving our own help pages. One project I have on my long-term to-do list is to create some form of tutorial series on the technical aspects of wiki editing, like template creation. While not exactly the same as what you're proposing here, I felt that it was similar enough to bring up: anything that helps us gain new editors by making it easier for them to learn is good. As an admin, I also cannot view the edit history of our old, CC-redirecting, help pages in the normal way either. However, what I can do is use [[Special:MergeHistory]] to merge the edit history of these lost pages into some other page which then lets you view them. As a test, I did this on [[T:FAITH]] and recovered the edit history to [[User:Bongolium500/T:FAITH]]. I can do this for other pages on request. Examining the edit history shows that there never actually was anything there. We will probably need to create a lot of these pages from scratch. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:52, 25 May 2023 (UTC) | ||
::: This is a great idea, but yeah, the "from scratch" part will be a lot of effort. Seems like something to add to the to-do list, so to speak, while keeping the Community Central redirects in the meantime. – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 21:03, 28 May 2023 (UTC) |