[Mediawiki-l] automatic Index and New entries

[Brion Vibber]

On Oct 5, 2004, at 12:53 PM, deific at deific.org wrote:
> I am not seeing a "create new entry" button on link when I do a search.
> I have been able to create new entries by creating a link on the term 
> from
> within another entry but it seems like I'm missing the straightforward 
> way
> to do it.

That standard and expected way to create new entries on a wiki is by 
creating a link to the term from another entry.

A "create new entry" button encourages orphan pages, which is generally 
considered a bad practice on a wiki; particularly since search queries 
are often in a form that's not ideal for page titling (odd case, extra 
words, etc).

However you can sneak in an edit link for negative results from a "go" 
request by editing [[MediaWiki:Nogomatch]], like this: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Nogomatch

> Also, is there a way have a index of terms automatically generated?

Does [[Special:Allpages]] do what you want?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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