That could be done, but we (I) would have to know what to convert, and into
what format.
Would that be [[Egypt/History]] => [[Egypt (History)]]? Or rather =>
[[History of Egypt]]? Same for Geography, or different? And so on.
I suggest making this a function that is available only for sysops in the
sidebar. I am certain that Larry will be most eager to deconstruct some
subpages ;)
A similar function is planned for moving/renaming pages, including subpages
(for example, to move them to the wikipedia namespace).
Should we attempt to convert all links to these pages automatically, or
should we use #REDIRECTs? The former would be more elegant, but also more
complicated, while the latter is rather simple but crude.
Magnus
-----Original Message-----
From: wikipedia-l-admin(a)nupedia.com
[mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of
koyaanisqatsi(a)nupedia.com
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 5:10 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] subpages
Hello, I wondered if any of the programmers out there could help
me. When I first started contributing to wikipedia, I took it
upon myself to add all the country info in the CIA World
Factbook. This was before Larry hashed out all the consequences
of subpages, and so I just followed the established model instead
of creating a new one. Now all the countries of the world except
for a few of the A's are in subpage format, and between all the
individual entries and the [[countries of the world]] page,
that's a lot of influence towards creating subpages. I've worked
on converting the pages, but the process is slow and tedious. So
I wanted to know if it would be possible to write a script to
convert those pages, and if anyone out there has the time and
inclination to do so. I'd do it myself except my last
programming experience was in BASIC. <g>
thanks,
kq
p.s. I really don't know how long it might take to write this
script, so if it's some ridiculous amount of time, just forget about it.0