Thank you for the useful detailed information. From all of the responses can I conclude that subpage is a structural way to manage pages through Namespace mechanism?
Nelson
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"Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher@ gmail.com> To Sent by: "MediaWiki announcements and site mediawiki-l-bounc admin list" es@lists.wikimedi mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org a.org cc
Subject 10/03/2007 10:51 Re: [Mediawiki-l] PM rome:information/weather or rome/information/weather ?
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On 04/10/2007, Nelson A Li nli@csc.com wrote:
I don't want to flood all mediawiki experts' mailboxes, but I am curious
to
ask what is the advantage of creating subpages?
The main advantage is conceptual, for understanding the structure or relationship between the different pages.
Special:Prefixindex is also useful for subpages structures.
Note that by default, no namespaces support subpages. You have to turn it on in LocalSettings.php. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgNamespacesWithSubpages#Enabling_fo...
AFAIK there are two differences between subpages being enabled or not. The first difference is if subpages are enabled, you will get an automatic backlink to the parent page.
The second difference is that relative linking works. So if you have [[Rome]], [[Rome/Information]] and [[Rome/Information/Weather]], on [[Rome/Information]] you can have links like
[[..|the main page]] (links to [[Rome]], I think) [[/Weather]] (links to [[Rome/Information/Weather]]) [[../Information2]] (links to [[Rome/Information2]])
If it's not enabled, you've just created a page that happens to have a slash in the title. Like "AC/DC" - if subpages are enabled, "DC" is a subpage of "AC". If they're not enabled, it's just a string that happens to have a slash.
To see subpages used extensively I recommend checking out Wikibooks. http://en.wikibooks.org/
regards, Brianna
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