exec-based /help system that gives links to the wiki

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Proposal: A dedicated /help command that takes various exec and canary (a rapidly decreasing number of which exist) commands as a parameter, and returns a wiki link where appropriate.

Additionally, adding a /command help mode to most exec commands, to take users to the relevant wiki page if appropriate - for instance, /home help would take you to minecraftonline.com/wiki/Homes. This could be automated by having a set of wiki redirects on pages such as wiki/commandhelp_/home, which could then direct to the relevant page, making the backend of this system maintainance free.

Comments (4)

  1. Evan Markowitz

    We could either use your wiki/commandhelp_/home method, or we can just make a text file to store name:help_page on that, however that requires admin maintenance.

  2. Riot reporter

    The entire point of using the wiki is to avoid having one of us have to manually scrape through it and make the help work with every command change and update. It's because it currently requires admin maintenance that the help system is almost four years out of date.

  3. Evan Markowitz

    I wish to work on this. Should we have a wiki/commandhelp_/command for every command? If so, I'm thinking of how we do it. Should the entire text of that page just be the name of the redirect page? (ie Homes or Commands#Wood_donor)

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