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@nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 5:10 PM To: wikipedia-l@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