On 2013-02-12 12:55 AM, "S Page" spage@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com
wrote:
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- A desire for a department to have "their own space" on the wiki.
I assume you looked at enabling subpages in the main namespace?[1] That way Human Resources/Payroll/Show_me_the_money gets a nice breadcrumb up to Payroll and Human Resources landing pages. You can encourage people to create subpages rather than making yet another top-level page by putting [Create page] forms on landing pages that use a local template[2] and prepend the local hierarchy.
I'm not talking about access control, but (1) customized look & feel,
and (2) ability to narrow searches to find articles only within that space.
(1) Code could infer subpage hierarchy and apply CSS from a corresponding CSS hierarchy.
(2) Add prefix: to the searches to search subpages, you can make a form for it[3].
It should be noted that that doesnt work out of the box but needs lucene/MWSearch extension.
For subpages to really fill this use case I think the page title would have to show only (or primarily emphasize) the subpage name instead of the full page name.
Also it sounds like in such a use case, one would want links to be relative to the current path first. If on page a/b/c you would want [[foo]] to link to a/b/foo if it exists and link to just foo if that page does not exist.
I think a good take away from this thread is that mediawiki has a lot of featuters that almost fit the bill but don't quite fully.
-bawolff