[Mediawiki-l] Multi-part pages like EVOwiki and couple more questions...

[Rowan Collins]

On 25/04/05, CheekyGeek <cheekygeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Main_Page
> I know that making a Subhead gives one the separate "edit" link, but
> how does one organize the page in multiple columns (boxes) like that?

Hitting "view source" (what would normally be "edit") reveals that
this is just a cunning use of table markup, with some . In this case,
the author has just used the good old HTML-style markup, but MediaWiki
also supports a more wiki-style "pipe markup", which has equivalents
for most things. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
 
> Ironically (for such a product) I'm having a hard time finding
> well-organized documentation for various modifications that I'd like
> to make. If anyone can suggest the best documentation sites for
> MediaWiki, perhaps I could send fewer questions to this list.
> : )

Theoretically, the documentation all lives at
http://meta.wikimedia.org - start at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents or do a search within
that site. It's also worth searching the archives of the mailing
lists, by putting site:mail.wikimedia.org with your search terms in
Google or wherever.

> I'd also like to create an an alphabetical index that I could include
> on each page (Just the letters of the alphabet as links that would
> then create a list of pages beginning with that letter). Is that
> possible (or built-in somewhere)?

Well, the lists of pages beginning with each letter can be linked to
in the style of [[Special:Allpages/A|A]], [[Special:Allpages/B|B]],
etc.

To make it appear on all pages, you could either manually add it as a
template on each one ({{template name}}) or edit the page
[[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] (which should then appear at the top of each
page) or [[MediaWiki:Tagline]] (which is the "From {{SITENAME}}" text
at the top of each page). To find messages like this to customise in
whatever way you see fit, take a look at the page
[[Special:Allmessages]] on your wiki.

> : ) Thanks in advance!

HTH, good luck, and happy hacking! :)

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]