[Mediawiki-l] Creating Alias name for a page -- Is there a better way?

[Haim (Howard) Roman]

Or,

   1. create the page under one of the names
   2. then use the "move" tab to rename it.
   3. Moving will cause the 2nd name to become the same name, and the first
   name will redirect to it.
   4. (I assume this just puts in a #REDIRECT command

I believe that wiki's search can be configured to show both the "main" &
"secondary" names, or only the main ones.  (But I'm not sure).

Also, more than one level of redirect does not work.  E.g.,

   1. you create an article titled "SX-445-D"
   2. you move (rename) it to "wildcat"
   3. you then move (rename) "wildcat" to "puma"

then going to "SX-445-D" will no longer automatically redirect you to
"puma".  You'll have to edit "SX-445-D" & change its redirect from "wildcat"
to "puma" (I hope this was clear)

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Haim (Howard) Roman
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 20:22, Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When you create a page named page1 and you want alias1 to be the alias
> you should create the page alias1 like this;
>
> #redirect [[page1]]
>
> alias1 will now forward to page1
>
> Best,
>
> Huib
>
> 2011/1/10, Tech Geek <techgeek12345 at gmail.com>:
> > We have an internal Mediawiki 1.15 running on our corporate LAN. We have
> > started to create a page for each of our products and we have a
> > technical name and a non-technical name for each of the products. So for
> > example, let's say a product's engineering name would be "IPZY-112" and
> its
> > corresponding non-technical name would be "Tiger".
> >
> > Is there a way we to create an alias title (Tiger) for the page with
> title
> > "IPZY-112"?
> >
> > We thought about IPZY-112 (Tiger) but it wouldn't work since half of the
> > company refers as Tiger and other half as IPZY-112.
> >
> > Is there any better way?
> >
> > Thanks!
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>
> Regards,
> Huib "Abigor" Laurens
>
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