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The Codidact Help should be more comprehensive and practical

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There are two points about the "Help" of "Codidact"should be mentioned:

  • The Help should be more comprehensive. There are many features and rules for Codidact, like voting limit, commenting, tagging, ..., which one can only find in some meta posts or comments.

  • The information in the Help should be more practical. There are only several articles there, some of which talk about some things which are not so necessary for users to know, for example, how the the score of a post is calculated.

I think the Help Center of Stack Exchange should be considered as an exemplar.

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Yep; the Help Center definitely needs some more fleshing out.

To that end, I'd like to point you towards this question that I posted a couple months ago: What help pages need to be written?

If there are specific topics that you'd like to see covered by a help article, please leave an answer there and it'll get added to the to-do list.

The current list of existing articles is basically what happened when I had a few free days to dedicate to writing articles. Unfortunately, I've been rather busier lately and don't have as much time to go searching for what needs to be written, so if you have something that you'd like written adding it as an answer is probably the best way currently to get in the queue.

And, of course, this is an open-source project; if you feel like writing some new help center articles yourself, feel free! The articles are hosted in the Codidact/docs repo on GitHub. You can also hop into Discord to get some pointers if you want.

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MathPhysics‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago

@Mithical Thanks for your answer. Is there any policy or rule preventing the community team from copying and pasting the articles of SE Help Center?

Mithical‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@MathPhysics - I don't know what license the help center articles on SE are under, but I'm assuming it's not the same as user-generated content, so there could be a legal problem doing that. Also, since we're different from SE, their help center articles won't necessarily work for us. To get what's best for us, it's probably best to just write them ourselves.