There is the concept of SUBPAGE. If you have a page called MY PAGE you can then create a page called MY PAGE/SUB1
This will auto-magically create a backward link in ../SUB1 to MY PAGE.
There is also an extension which will create a TOC of the sub-pages for the current page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList2
(by the way, this information was found by doing a search on 'subpage' on MW)
I would still suggest that you look at the book "MediaWiki Administrator's Tutorial Guide" by Mizanur Rahman and published by Packt Publishing, Ltd. (www.packtpub.com). It isn't the 'end all and be all' but there are good bits of information about Mediawiki. I still find myself browsing through the book and finding bits that make the synapses fire.
Also browsing the archives is another good source of brain food.
The simple fact is that MediaWiki, though appearing to be well written, is not *well* documented and it is very complex.
As a developer/consultant for 28 years I can assure you that even in well run companies this can be the norm. It is documented well enough for someone to start working with Brion or Rob but for the newbies to MW .. it can be a stretch. 'specially since most of the time it is not the primary function.
So I would suggest that you stop complaining and put very specific questions and/or suggestions out. If you can get answers great .. if not then move on to the next problem.
It really will work better.
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Monahon, Peter B. Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:45 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Any leads on a basic wiki setup-and-configure instruction manual?
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