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What help pages need to be written?
I've been working on the user help center recently - writing new help pages and improving old ones. You can see the latest changes and suggestions - even the ones that haven't been deployed to the site yet - over on GitHub.
Of course, though, I'm not going to be able to come up with everything - there will be things that need help pages that I'm not going to think of on my own. With that in mind... what help center topics would you like to see?
Feel free to leave suggestions in the answers below; I'll look through the responses and see what I can do (and I'll be updating the to-do list).
As I write this answer to say that there's nothing I can think of, I see there's an option for me to pick the license I …
4y ago
Just to formalize something that's in the works, but which I'd like feedback on: a help center page on LaTeX would be us …
4y ago
I wondered what the scope of the Linux Systems site was. So I went to the help center. There's no obvious page in ther …
4mo ago
A page on how pinging in comments works would be helpful.
4y ago
Add a list of standard close reasons to the help center. It must include the full list of shared close reasons (those th …
4mo ago
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Just to formalize something that's in the works, but which I'd like feedback on: a help center page on LaTeX would be useful. It doesn't have to be (and probably shouldn't be) deployed to all sites, because most won't need to have MathJax enabled, but it would be nice to have a basic page that sites can add to their help center if need be. I wrote up an addendum to Scientific Speculation's help center page on formatting discussing basic LaTeX usage, and I'm working on expanding that to make it more detailed.
I imagine that individual sites could customize it. For instance, if there's a site about Chemistry and if they decide to enable the mhchem package, they could add in a subsection about writing formulas. If the Electrical Engineering site wanted to make it easier for folks to write circuit diagrams using tikz (though of course there are other ways to do that), they could add in a section about tikz.
Bottom line: It would be good to have a basic page sites can choose to include and customize if they want.
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