On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:01:05 +0000, Jason Davies ucgajpd@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
Is there any way to set up a page so that it lists information that people contribute, as well as provides a listing of all the pages that link to it.
not sure I follow you - are Categories going to do the job here? have a look at those. You add them at the end of the page.
To be pedantic, but also kind of helpful, I feel I should point out that adding them at the end of the page is just a *convention* to make editting them easier. The software will recognise them *wherever* they come in the wikitext, but they will always *appear* (in the displayed article) seperately from the main text and *not* wherever in the text you actually typed them.
e.g. the text:
A nefle is a [[Category:Fruit]] that ...
will add the article to the category fine, but will show up as something like:
A nefle is a that ...
Categories: Fruit
so instead you might use
A nefle is a [[fruit]] that ... [[Category:Fruit]]
so that the first sentence still makes sense after the category link "disappears"
(See my earlier response for a help page that may or may not explain it better than that.)
To be pedantic, but also kind of helpful, I feel I should point out that adding them at the end of the page is just a *convention* to make editting them easier.
yeah - this is the explicity version of my implicit one (trying to take pity on a newbie who would either work it out later, or not need to know:-)
but taken as helpful (from a professional pedant...!)
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