Hi
I've got a MediaWiki server running as a collaborative document writing system here, but the users are moaning about the way required to start a new page
Over on the WikiPedia, the Search function gives you the option to start a new page if the title you searched for does not exist. I cannot find any way to activate this on MediaWiki.
Is it an option I've missed, or does it require serious code changing?
Cian
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:01:11 +0000, Cian Duffy myob87@gmail.com wrote:
Over on the WikiPedia, the Search function gives you the option to start a new page if the title you searched for does not exist. I cannot find any way to activate this on MediaWiki.
Is it an option I've missed, or does it require serious code changing?
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-October/001671.html
On 15 Oct 2004, at 17:15, Rowan Collins wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:01:11 +0000, Cian Duffy myob87@gmail.com wrote:
Over on the WikiPedia, the Search function gives you the option to start a new page if the title you searched for does not exist. I cannot find any way to activate this on MediaWiki.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-October/ 001671.html
I've had the same problem with my users; they're unfamiliar with the wiki concept, and while they're starting to understand the problem of orphaned pages they haven't quite made the connection yet.
I've basically done as Rowan suggested, but in addition I commented out the 'Search' button from the main page template since the results page doesn't trigger the nogotext message. On default installs 'Go' does a full text search anyway, so I consider removing the 'Search' button a simplification with few side-effects.
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:27:59 +0100, Jonathan Sanderson lists@quernstone.com wrote:
I've had the same problem with my users; they're unfamiliar with the wiki concept, and while they're starting to understand the problem of orphaned pages they haven't quite made the connection yet.
Have you put links to [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Overview FAQ#What is Wiki?]], [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Orphan]], and [[Wikipedia:Help:Starting a new page]]? That's what I would do. (try [[Help:Contents]] if you have no clue where)
Unfortunately, I haven't seen a thing in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ]], or in the previously mentioned pages, about why orphans are bad. ;)
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