Template:Help Out/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Help Out.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Usage

Use on the main page of WikiProjects, under a heading like "How you can help".

{{Help Out
|topic = 
|invite = 
|projcat = 
|newarticles = 
|langcode = 
|langname =
|stubscat = 
|unassessedcat = 
|assessmentlink = 
|todo = 
}}

Required parameters

|topic= the topic name
|stubscat= the project's main stub category
|unassessedcat= the project's unassessed articles category
|assessmentlink= page where assessment is discussed

Optional parameters

|invite= an invite template
|projcat= the main category for all the project's articles without the "Category:" prefix, i.e. which includes all the project's articles (MAIN_CAT in the project banner template).
|newarticles= the subpage where new articles are listed
|langcode= and |langname= (both are needed together) - the two-letter code of another Wikipedia which may be a source for translating content, and the name of it
|todo= a todo list or page with a todo list on it

Note that a reference to the project's cleanup listing is included automatically, if it exists.

Example

Example with all parameters:

{{Help Out
|topic          = Venezuela
|invite         = Template:WikiProject Venezuela invite
|projcat        = Venezuela articles
|newarticles    = Wikipedia:WikiProject Venezuela/new articles
|langcode       = es
|langname       = Spanish
|stubscat       = Venezuela stubs
|unassessedcat  = Unassessed Venezuela articles
|assessmentlink = Wikipedia:WikiProject Venezuela/Assessment
|todo           = Wikipedia:WikiProject Venezuela/To do
}}

Redirects

{{WikiProject help}}