[drupal-docs] Improve helpsystem and helptexts

Stefan Nagtegaal Drupal-Docs at iStyledThis.nl
Mon Apr 18 14:37:43 UTC 2005


Dear documentation team,

i'm proud to announce a patch on drupal.org from my site which deleted 
all the long helptexts and makes the help.module depracted (unused, and 
available for removal). For any of you curious where to find it, here 
it is: http://drupal.org/node/20760

While I asked you guys to help improve our current helptexts I think I 
have to tell you why I did this and what my end goal will be.
The current long helptexts are mostly outdated, do not reflect the 
meaning of pages, and are inconsistent.

Another reason is that - from a translators point of view - these 
things are horrible to translate. They are _much_ too long..


Now, what the plan is...
What I would like todo is extend, improve and make the helptexts above 
the pages more consistent.. We are on the right way in this thread: 
http://lists.drupal.org/archives/drupal-docs/2005-04/msg00008.html but 
it could even be better..
If the patch (http://drupal.org/node/20760) hits core and the 
help.module will be deprecated, I would like to discuss with you guys 
how to  organize things and what would be the most easy way of 
improving the helptexts..


For now, this is it.. If you have any questions feel free to ask..



Stefan




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