[Wikipedia-l] Proposal for a "#PARENT" command

[Jimmy Wales]

Barring major objections, I think this is *exactly right*.  I think
this might be a way to achieve the consensus I was talking about.  It
gives the "automatic linkback" capability that we like about subpages,
but (respecting what LDC said yesterday, which made sense to me), it
makes it more flexible and allows humans to determine the conceptual
relationships.

All the #PARENT command would *really* need to do would be to make the
automatic linkback.  There could be multiple parents.  The parents
don't need to know about their children, unless we do it.

I like it.

Simon Kissane wrote:

> Some have said that the advantage of having subpages
> is that every subpage has a link to its parent page.
> We could still keep that functionality, with a little
> extra work, if we added a "#PARENT" command.
> 
> Suppose we have pages [[Afghanistan]] and
> [[Afghanistan/History]]. Currently,
> [[Afghanistan/History]] has a link back to
> [[Afghanistan]] in it. But if we rename
> [[Afghanistan/History]] to [[History of Afghanistan]],
> the link back disappears.
> 
> That is why I propose a "#PARENT" command. The
> "#PARENT" command would be placed at the beginning of
> [[History of Afghanistan]], as follows:
> #PARENT [[Afghanistan]]
> Then, a link to [[Afghanistan]] will appear on the
> [[History of Afghanistan]] page, just like a link to
> [[Afghanistan]] appears on the [[Afghanistan/History]] page.
> 
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