What's the quickest way to search the help pages?

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Ok, am I crazy or is it super difficult to figure out how to search within the help pages here?  For the life of me I can't seem to navigate to a place where my search will give me what I am looking for.

As an example, I wanted to understand more about what "WikiTree popularity" means on an image.  My instinct is to go hit a search box somwhere and type exactly that, and that I would be given a search result that would include a page where it's discussed.

Can someone point me in the direction of how best to search the help area of WikiTree?

(I am quite willing to accept that my inability to navigate is due to the fact that it's a good hour and a half past my intended bedtime and my brain has quit being useful!!)
in WikiTree Tech by Lundie Pinner G2G6 (9.5k points)
retagged by Keith Hathaway

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Really good question, Lundie. I wish we had a good answer.

There is no easy way to just search help pages. We should add that. (Technically, the first step might be to put them in their own "namespace.")

Some members did make it easier to use help pages by creating an index.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help_Index

Before the index we only had the category.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:WikiTree_Help
by Chris Whitten G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
selected by Lundie Pinner

Is putting them into their own namespace something that I can help with? Or is that a strictly admin thing? I'm all about getting on 'the first steps"!

(Thanks for the links -- I poked around in there and wasn't really able to find what I was looking for.  Might be I don't know where it is talked about, and I realize it might not be discussed...yet.)  wink

Thanks, Lundie. There might be ways you could help, but we'd have to take the first steps on this side. (And I wish I could say we would, right now, but there are so many things on the to-do list.)

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