[Mediawiki-l] Is it possible to copy pages

[Daniel Barrett]

It's worth mentioning that on a real wiki, you want to do as little copying as possible.

If a piece of information is found on Page X, and you copy it to Page Y, then pages X and Y are now dependent on each other. If you change one, you have to remember to update the other or else it goes out of date.

In real life, on a wiki you want to maintain properly, you would use a different approach. Here are several:

* Link from page Y to page X
* Pull the information from page X into page Y automatically, using transclusion
* Make a template and transclude into both pages X and Y

Copying should be your last resort. It is the death of good information resources.

DanB