[Wikipedia-l] subpages

[Magnus Manske]

That could be done, but we (I) would have to know what to convert, and into
what format.

Would that be [[Egypt/History]] => [[Egypt (History)]]? Or rather =>
[[History of Egypt]]? Same for Geography, or different? And so on.

I suggest making this a function that is available only for sysops in the
sidebar. I am certain that Larry will be most eager to deconstruct some
subpages ;)

A similar function is planned for moving/renaming pages, including subpages
(for example, to move them to the wikipedia namespace).

Should we attempt to convert all links to these pages automatically, or
should we use #REDIRECTs? The former would be more elegant, but also more
complicated, while the latter is rather simple but crude.

Magnus


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikipedia-l-admin at nupedia.com
> [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin at nupedia.com]On Behalf Of
> koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 5:10 PM
> To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] subpages
>
>
> Hello, I wondered if any of the programmers out there could help
> me.  When I first started contributing to wikipedia, I took it
> upon myself to add all the country info in the CIA World
> Factbook.  This was before Larry hashed out all the consequences
> of subpages, and so I just followed the established model instead
> of creating a new one.  Now all the countries of the world except
> for a few of the A's are in subpage format, and between all the
> individual entries and the [[countries of the world]] page,
> that's a lot of influence towards creating subpages.  I've worked
> on converting the pages, but the process is slow and tedious.  So
> I wanted to know if it would be possible to write a script to
> convert those pages, and if anyone out there has the time and
> inclination to do so.  I'd do it myself except my last
> programming experience was in BASIC.  <g>
>
> thanks,
>
> kq
>
> p.s. I really don't know how long it might take to write this
> script, so if it's some ridiculous amount of time, just forget about it.0