I have an old Wiki at http://www.mapinfo-l.com that I am moving to MediaWiki.
For the time being I left the old one running and am temporarily setting up the new one at http://www.svgmap.com
One thing that's nice on the old Plone ZWiki was the subtopics features, see in the middle where it starts out AdminFeedback, etc. http://www.mapinfo-l.com/Wiki/FrontPage
The users will expect this.
Is there any way I can implement it on MediaWiki?
I tried this but it doesn't seem to be what I want - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList2 -- or is it??
Thanks in advance!
Eric
Mediawiki subpages are a built in feature and do not require any extension: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Subpage_feature
I'm not familiar with subpage extensions nor what they may add to that. I'd start by understanding above built in feature.
Roger Chrisman
At first blush it appears that the extension *should* create the topic list as on your old wik.
I never undersood why they would have subpages without the built in ability to have the subpages listed <G>
What happens when you try the extension ..
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Eric Frost Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 13:45 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] moving to Mediawiki
I have an old Wiki at http://www.mapinfo-l.com that I am moving to MediaWiki.
For the time being I left the old one running and am temporarily setting up the new one at http://www.svgmap.com
One thing that's nice on the old Plone ZWiki was the subtopics features, see in the middle where it starts out AdminFeedback, etc. http://www.mapinfo-l.com/Wiki/FrontPage
The users will expect this.
Is there any way I can implement it on MediaWiki?
I tried this but it doesn't seem to be what I want - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList2 -- or is it??
Thanks in advance!
Eric _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Roger,
The link you gave states that the subpage will have a link to the parent but it does not mention anywhere that the parent will have a list of it's subpages. I hope I am not misreading that. I have never found a way for the parent to note its children .. probably not too proud of them (ugly step child thing :)
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Roger Chrisman Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 16:05 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] moving to Mediawiki
Mediawiki subpages are a built in feature and do not require any extension: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Subpage_feature
I'm not familiar with subpage extensions nor what they may add to that. I'd start by understanding above built in feature.
Roger Chrisman
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Dave Sigafoos wrote:
The link you gave states that the subpage will have a link to the parent but it does not mention anywhere that the parent will have a list of it's subpages. I hope I am not misreading that. I have never found a way for the parent to note its children .. probably not too proud of them (ugly step child thing :)
You are correct. Anyone know a way to automate inclusion of a list of links within a parent page to all of its subpages?
The wiki practice is to edit the parent page manually and type in desired links of course. But a "list descendants" gizmo could be cool.
On 07/08/07, Roger Chrisman roger@rogerchrisman.com wrote:
You are correct. Anyone know a way to automate inclusion of a list of links within a parent page to all of its subpages?
The wiki practice is to edit the parent page manually and type in desired links of course. But a "list descendants" gizmo could be cool.
Well, that's what SubpageList and SubpageList2 do; the former is one I knocked together some time ago, and the latter has been expanded by somebody else.
Rob Church
Well, you still have to define and set up the subpage relationship, right?
With the Plone Zwiki we never did that. That subtopics list just automagically appears based on what the page is linking to... of course it can't be and it's not perfect, I'm not sure how it handles recursion for instance (it must just truncate).
But it works well enough. For instance, see the Subpage list on the front page -- http://www.mapinfo-l.com/Wiki/FrontPage Also, see the subsection Subpage list for MapBasic Development -- http://www.mapinfo-l.com/Wiki/MapBasicDevelopment
No one had to define subpage relationships, I think it just happened based on how the pages were created and are linked. Maybe this is something unique or different between the architecture of Zwiki and MediaWiki -- or would it be straightforward to write and extension for MediaWiki to do this?
Thanks, Eric
Eric
I think that this is what you get with Subpage and Subpage2.
All that you have to do is create your subpages using title with '/'
So
ParentPage ParentPage/Child1 ParentPage/Child2 Etc
Then using Subpage(2) you would get the listing included.
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Eric Frost Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:16 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] moving to Mediawiki
Well, you still have to define and set up the subpage relationship, right?
With the Plone Zwiki we never did that. That subtopics list just automagically appears based on what the page is linking to... of course it can't be and it's not perfect, I'm not sure how it handles recursion for instance (it must just truncate).
But it works well enough. For instance, see the Subpage list on the front page -- http://www.mapinfo-l.com/Wiki/FrontPage Also, see the subsection Subpage list for MapBasic Development -- http://www.mapinfo-l.com/Wiki/MapBasicDevelopment
No one had to define subpage relationships, I think it just happened based on how the pages were created and are linked. Maybe this is something unique or different between the architecture of Zwiki and MediaWiki -- or would it be straightforward to write and extension for MediaWiki to do this?
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