there is MediaWiki:Monobook.css for style sheets

also what you could do is a template that uses sub-pages such as the todo list template on wikipedia

Chris McIntosh wrote:

Hi,

I would like to define a standard page to use for documenation on my wiki. It should look something like

Header: ... Business Case: ... Notes and Progress: ... etc

I tried to set this up first with a wiki template. {{ProjectTemplate|Blah|blah|blah}} However it doesn't seem to be able to give me the flexibility to create different section of markup and possible change their position at a later time.

I am thinking of something like an html page where I define different sections and then can define a stylesheet at a later time.

Is there anything like this in Mediawiki?

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Hi,

I needed to do soemthing very similar on my wiki:

I was in need of a few of such standard pages, which shall have an initial unified structure (im my case: project page, user page, group page, talk page of templates, ...) but should allow to develop in a non-unified way (as you say: some sections will only add in specific projects, each user will put individual things onto its initial unified user-page, ...)

So my solution was as follows:

I created all "Standard pages" as Examples in the Meta-namespace (namespace 4) In my case: WikiBASE:Example - User Homepage WikiBASE:Example - Template - Takl Page and so on ... All these pages where added into the category Category:Examples by adding the following code at the bottom: <!-- Remove this category when using this example, --> <!-- it is only used to add this example to the list of examples! --> [[Category:Examples|User Homepage]] At my myin page, there is (in the header) a list of the mostly used categories, it also includes [[Category:Examples]] And it contains a little HTML form to createa a new page (which is only a matter of convenience)

The procedure to start with a new page from such a standard page is - go to the example and copy the code - create a new page from the main page - paste the copied example and fill in actual data as required. - from this point on the page develops independently, but it was based on a standard page, providing an initial uniform structure

Hope this helps! Regards Wolfgang

Chris McIntosh wrote:

Hi,

I would like to define a standard page to use for documenation on my wiki. It should look something like

Header: ... Business Case: ... Notes and Progress: ... etc

I tried to set this up first with a wiki template. {{ProjectTemplate|Blah|blah|blah}} However it doesn't seem to be able to give me the flexibility to create different section of markup and possible change their position at a later time.

I am thinking of something like an html page where I define different sections and then can define a stylesheet at a later time.

Is there anything like this in Mediawiki?

Chris McIntosh _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l