[Mediawiki-l] "Index" extension for MW?

Hugh Prior mediawiki at localpin.com
Wed Jun 21 18:35:42 UTC 2006


How about just putting [[Category:Index]] on all your pages.  You'd then 
have a category which was basically an index to every page.


Hugh

"Ken McDonald" <ken at pixologic.com> wrote in 
message news:44970688.2010600 at pixologic.com...
> We would very much like some way of building true "indexes" to our MW
> site. In particular, we'd like to be able to do something like this
> (only at the "top level" of a page is needed, not enclosed in other
> markup):
>
> [[Index:Civil War]]
>
> This would automatically create a "Civil War" entry in the index table
> (if one did not already exist), and would create a link back to not just
> the page containing the index markup, but also to the position on the
> page where the 'Index' statement occurred. (A different syntax might be
> preferable, but that's a minor point :-) ).
>
> This is much easier than creating each category page manually, and is (I
> think) much more useful for finding particular pieces on info within
> large pages. It really fulfills a different function that do categories.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated,
> Ken 






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