Mike Friedman wrote:
I think there needs to be a method for creating sub-articles which share content with their parent in a permanent way. I think this would be extremely beneficial in creating content where there is a need for hierarchical organization. In particular, what I envision is a special tag which could be placed in a sub-heading, which would collapse everything from that point to the next heading behind a link that says "Read more..." (or similar.) [...] So, thoughts? Is this practical or doable? I'd be happy to write the code just as soon as I learn some more PHP.
Before you code this in PHP: How do I write the wiki link to one of these sub-articles? And how do I write the URL if I want to link to a sub-article from an external web page? And if I arrive at such a sub-article URL, and then press "edit this page", will I also edit the common introduction to the bigger article?
The traditional reaction to the word "hierarchical" has been "think again". Neither wiki nor hypertext in general is hierarchical, but networked, with many small pieces of information each reachable by a unique URL.