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Liz Kim

7 Nov 2006 7 Nov '06

5:28 p.m.

Hello, It seems like the structure becomes very flat with MediaWiki. All pages are under URL/PAGENAME.. Is there a way to create /URL/DIRECTORY/SUBDIRECTORY/PAGE? Or do multiple Mediawikis need to be created? Thanks!

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David Gerard

7 Nov 7 Nov

5:39 p.m.

On 07/11/06, Liz Kim <lizkim270(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It seems like the structure becomes very flat with MediaWiki. All pages are under URL/PAGENAME.. Is there a way to create /URL/DIRECTORY/SUBDIRECTORY/PAGE?

Yeah, just create the page with a slash in the name. You can see the effect on, e.g., RFC or AFD pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kerru_Dera Notice there's a link to the level up. - d.

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Simetrical

10:39 p.m.

On 11/7/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 07/11/06, Liz Kim <lizkim270(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It seems like the structure becomes very flat with MediaWiki. All pages are under URL/PAGENAME.. Is there a way to create /URL/DIRECTORY/SUBDIRECTORY/PAGE?

Yeah, just create the page with a slash in the name. You can see the effect on, e.g., RFC or AFD pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kerru_Dera Notice there's a link to the level up.

You may have to enable subpages for the namespace in question, however, before this will work (Google "MediaWiki subpage" to get instructions).

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Jay R. Ashworth

8 Nov 8 Nov

3:46 p.m.

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:39:55PM -0500, Simetrical wrote:

On 11/7/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 07/11/06, Liz Kim <lizkim270(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It seems like the structure becomes very flat with MediaWiki. All pages are under URL/PAGENAME.. Is there a way to create /URL/DIRECTORY/SUBDIRECTORY/PAGE?

Yeah, just create the page with a slash in the name. You can see the effect on, e.g., RFC or AFD pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Kerru_Dera Notice there's a link to the level up.

You may have to enable subpages for the namespace in question, however, before this will work (Google "MediaWiki subpage" to get instructions).

And you want to consider *very* carefully whether overloading taxonomy onto page names justifies the annoyance you will find yourself with when trying to *link* to them. Investigate categories fairly closely, before going here. Really. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra(a)baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_

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Steve Summit

4:15 p.m.

jra wrote:

...the annoyance you will find yourself with when trying to *link* to them.

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Jay R. Ashworth

4:43 p.m.

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:15:35AM -0500, Steve Summit wrote:

jra wrote:

...the annoyance you will find yourself with when trying to *link* to them.

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One of the major advatages of Wikiae is the ease with which you can name new pages, and inline-link to them, in a way that doesn't mess up your writing, or require overly many piped links. Subpages *completely* break that ability, in my only-somewhat-limited experience. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra(a)baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_

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David Gerard
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