Help:Copying

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

• Step one: In a separate browser window, navigate to Special:Export.
• Step two: You will see an open textbox asking you for a list of pages to export.
• Step three: 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.

Help:Contents
Help:Navigation
Help:Searching
Help:Tracking_changes
Help:Editing_pages
Help:Starting_a_new_page
Help:Formatting
Help:Links
Help:Categories
Help:Images
Help:Templates
Help:Tables
Help:Variables
Help:Managing_files
Help:Preferences
Help:Skins
Help:Namespaces
Help:Interwiki_linking
Help:Special pages
Template:PD_Help_Page
Template:Meta
Template:Admin_tip
Template:Prettytable
Template:Hl2
Template:Hl3
Template:Thankyou
Image:Example.jpg

• Step four: Make sure the box "Include only the current revision, not the full history" is CHECKED.
• Step five: Click the 'Export' button.
• Step six: Save the file to your desktop or other convenient location you'll remember.
• Step seven: Navigate to Special:Import on YOUR wiki. (You must be logged in as Admin/Sysop level to do this.)
• Step eight: Browse for the file you saved, and click 'Upload'.

That should do it! Although not complete, at least this gets you started on a decent help system.

[edit] Automated copying

If you use pywikipedia, there is a script to automate the copying at http://mediawiki-tools.cvs.sourceforge.net/mediawiki-tools/pywikipedia/mirrorhelp.py, which copies all pages in the help namespace along with templates and images directly referenced by those.