On 25/04/05, CheekyGeek <cheekygeek(a)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]