Wikipedia:Help Project

Our overall goal is to improve the help pages for readers, new editors and experienced editors alike.

Our ongoing objectives with respect to the help system are to:

• Streamline it: simplify, consolidate, and reduce redundancies
• Combat instruction creep and bloat wherever they appear
• Increase its ease of navigation
• Improve its accessibility
• Edit help page text for clarity
• Update obsolete information

1. Sign up to participate and get our project newsletter.
2. Read the Help Project guidelines.
3. Look for an open task and get involved with improving Wikipedia's help pages.
4. Leave comments on the talk page.

List of subpages

• Redesign our tutorial so people will read through it.
• Improve the Welcome template to encourage people to click links that will guide New Editors to the best help resources.
• Identify areas of the help system that are in need of some attention.
• Improve navigation between help pages by:
  • Developing nav templates in /Overview, with the possibility of using them on the help pages to aid users, too.
  • Navbox - Wikipedia:Help Project/Overview/Accessible Nav Box.
  • New template that could be useful: {{Breadcrumb2}}.
• Cleanup Category:Wikipedia help and sub-categories.

• Revamp the WP:Task Center to make it suitable for use as the "Go-To Place" for instructing new editors on where they can help out.

• Discuss problems and ideas related to Wikipedia's help system on the project talk page.
• Tag any pages that should be within the scope of the project with {{Wikipedia Help Project}} on their talk pages.
• Try to direct questions to the correct areas, and reduce the workload of editors in each of the specific areas, to relevant queries.
• Ensure pages are written to answer common questions, clearly, in help pages to reduce the amount of unnecessary questioning on talk pages.
• The help system needs "Watchdogs", to check for test edits on articles and talk pages, and to redirect misplaced questions by New Users. You can see recent changes of pages within this project's scope by using, Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Wikipedia_Help_Project_pages.
• Address specific article concerns as listed below or on the talk page.

== News ==

Redirects for discussion

• 22 Apr 2024 – Wikipedia:← (talk · edit · hist) →Help:Automatic edit summaries was RfDed by Nickps (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Apr 2024 – Wikipedia:→ (talk · edit · hist) →Wikipedia:Redirect was RfDed by Nickps (t · c); see discussion

Help articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	Total
A	1						1
B	6	15	10	6			37
C	1	8	6	6	1		22
Start	1	3	2	21		1	28
Category					95		95
File					2		2
Project	5	9	12	4	19		49
Redirect			1	1	78		80
Template	5	2	11	3	59		80
NA	69	54	202	138	125	6	594
Assessed	88	91	244	179	379	7	988
Total	88	91	244	179	379	7	988
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 340			Ω = 3.86

To survey Wikipedia's huge collection of help pages, try the following pages:

• Help:Menu
  • Help:Menu/Site map – all the browse pages presented on a single page
• Help:Contents/Directory
• Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia – includes operational pages
• Wikipedia:List of shortcuts#General information, help, and tutorials
• All pages index

Note that Wikipedia:Department directory lists Wikipedia's operational (task-oriented) pages, but itself could be considered a help page.