Categories
Features General

New Feature: Shared Help Pages

One of the key aspects to getting a good community for your wiki is having good help pages. Of course writing help pages is a time-consuming process which probably isn’t on the top of your to-do list. Luckily, we have a new solution!

We recently enabled a new extension called SharedHelpPages which displays help pages from ShoutWiki Hub on your wiki. Try it now – go to Help:Editing on on your site and, provided you haven’t made your own copy, you should see the content found on ShoutWiki Hub’s respective help page.

Currently this feature only works with English, Finnish, French and Dutch, though you can help make your language compatible by translating help pages. If you’d like to get involved with translation, contact us at supportshoutwiki.com

Categories
General Technical

New Feature: Problem Reports

RAP
You may have noticed a new link on your wiki called “Report a problem”. This is part of our latest addition to ShoutWiki, ProblemReports.

ProblemReports allow users, both anonymous and logged in, to report problems with a page, such as incorrect content or spam, which wiki admins can respond to. A detailed guide to using ProblemReports can be found at Help:Reporting a problem and Help:Resolving a problem on ShoutWiki Hub.

ProblemReports was originally written by Maciej Brencz (macbre) for Wikia, and updated for ShoutWiki by Jack Phoenix. ProblemReports’ interface is currently available in 49 different languages, thanks to the efforts of translators at translatewiki.net.