On Friday 09 October 2009 19:06:41 Daniel Barrett wrote:
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have to remember to update the other or else it goes out of date.
That's not quite what I wanted. This is basically a test Wiki. I have 1 page
which has become very large with lots of sections. What I was thinking of was
making several copies of the page and then editing each separately to only
leave the sections I wanted..
A bit of cut-and-paste did the job and I learned to plan my pages better in
future ;-)
Tony
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
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