Is it possible to make a table of contents for the whole site, and not only the one article?
/Johnny
On 7/27/05, Johnny Chiang Kejs jochke@jochke.dk wrote:
Is it possible to make a table of contents for the whole site, and not only the one article?
I'm not sure what the structure of such a TOC would look like. A TOC is suited to something like a book which has a hierarchical structure over a linear one. Wiki's are 1) non-linear in that there is no one order in which to read everything, and 2) non-hierarchical in that the articles are connected as an arbitrary directed graph via the hyperlinks.
Categories can impose a hierarchy, but that requires manual maintenance, and a certain discipline as to how they are used. One could use something like pywikibot to generate a "hierarchical" list of categories at any given point in time.
The indexing function is served by things like full text searches and "what links here." I suppose that it might be possible to make a static index from a snapshot of the wiki using tools like pywikibot, but...
And of course you can get a list of all the pages in alphabetical order.
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