Timeline for Explanation of site scope in help center
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 10:41 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @TimPost: perhaps one of the things that would make sense is to have a MathJax primers page in the help center that is automatically enabled for all SE sites with MathJax? (At least here, Math.SE, Physics, Cross-Validated, and I think CSTheory...) That page should be fairly static (so centrally curated still makes sense), and can be cobbled together from the existing Math.SE and the Physics.SE pages on the matter. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 10:37 | comment | added | Tim Post StaffMod | @WillieWong We can enable it where it makes sense, and there's a clear need. MO had a lot of very specialized content in the FAQ that needed to find a place in the various help center pages, and they just went through a major platform change so making sure that stuff can still be found is a pretty big priority. We prefer to not override pages unless there's a very clear need as those pages stop inheriting from the centrally curated collection, thus create more maintenance overhead. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 10:27 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @TimPost: out of curiosity, is the "per-site override" a privilege for MO or is it also, in theory, available for Math.SE? (No, I don't think we need them just yet; but we may have some pages that we would like to have in the help center in the future (after we hammer them out a bit more), such as one on how to effectively use MathJax, and possibly something about how to ask a good question.) | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:08 | comment | added | Tim Post StaffMod | @ScottMorrison You can now edit what's okay to ask and what's expected of users because we like it when they wear pants. Let me know if you need custom pages (new pages, blank) and in what sections and I'll see about getting them in. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 15:58 | comment | added | Tim Post StaffMod | @ScottMorrison It's per-site overrides, I'm setting them up now so you can edit the off topic, What I need is a list of them that you need to be editable, and any custom entries you might need created. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 15:43 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | Hi Tim, actually, now I'm confused by your answer again. I just went through the help centre, and found that the only editable page is mathoverflow.net/help/on-topic. Is that correct? How are we meant to disperse the uniquely-MO content from our previous help pages into the help centre? | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 15:40 | comment | added | Kim Morrison Mod | Hi Tim, great, thank you! I have to admit I haven't explored the help centre very much, so at this point I have little idea what is editable and what isn't. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 15:37 | history | answered | Tim PostStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |