Re: [Mediawiki-l] Showing new articles

Hello all, Ok, if I start encouraging people to create articles, they will want to see that their articles can be found and read by others. I added a box from the CreateArticle extension, which makes it easy to create a new article. The problem is that for people who aren't sold on wiki's yet, in my community of users, they won't see the new article showing up as a link or anything. When you go to the front page you don't have any kind of link that shows every page. Should I add a link that shows the most recent pages? I know that ideally new pages are linked to from other pages. With the CreateArticle extension that won't happen, necessarily. One just creates a new article. What's a best practice for sharing all the pages/articles that are part of a wiki site? For a new site, it is reasonable to show every single page for a while, until that list gets too long. I do need to learn more about Categories... but I'm not even sure if the intention is to create some kind of list, like a menu, or list of links that include all the pages in a category... and if that is even the case, if a user creates a page but doesn't put it in a category it won't show up in any listing by category. Sure, you might show all uncategorized articles but that will eventually become less useful as the list grows. Tips, suggestions, guidance, please? This has been confusing me for some time... I have a poetry site and thought it would be cool to have a wiki about words, language, communication, writing and meaning. I need to be able to think in terms of how wikis present users with information about all the articles in a site. Thanks in advance for any help, Bruce _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l