On Friday 09 October 2009 15:26:44 Mark (Markie) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Tony Molloy <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI, > > > > I'm new to wikis and mediawiki in particular. In order to learn how > > mediawiki > > and wikitext works I'm building a "Wiki Primer" wiki for our students to > > use > > with lots of examples and have two problems. > > > > 1. I've seen that you can move and rename pages but is it possible to > > copy pages > > copy pageX to pageY > > and have them separately editable afterwards. > > You can kind of do this by using the following code: > > <inputbox> type=create preload=XYZ width=40 </inputbox> > > This will create a new page at the title that is put into the input box > using the content from the page of the value XYZ. This would mean that the > code about could be put on the main page with preload=Main Page and then > users could insert there own page title to copy it to and the page content > of Main Page would then be loaded into the edit box of the new page ready > to be saved (users would have to save, this does not automatically do it > and would load the edit interface for the new page) > > 2. If I have a big page ( way too big ) with several sections. Is it > > > possible > > to make each section into it's own page. > > It is possible to both link to and edit only specific sections of a page. > To link to an section titled history just put #history on the end of the > url (ie wikilink would be [[Cheese#History|History of cheese]]. > > Hope this helps, > > Regards > > Mark
Thanks Mark, Tony > > > Now I know I can do both of these with cut-and-paste but I was just > > wondering > > if there is an easier way. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tony > > -- > > > > Dept. of Comp. Sci. > > University of Limerick. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
