On Friday 09 October 2009 19:06:41 Daniel Barrett wrote: > It's worth mentioning that on a real wiki, you want to do as little copying > as possible. > > If a piece of information is found on Page X, and you copy it to Page Y, > then pages X and Y are now dependent on each other. If you change one, you > have to remember to update the other or else it goes out of date. >
That's not quite what I wanted. This is basically a test Wiki. I have 1 page which has become very large with lots of sections. What I was thinking of was making several copies of the page and then editing each separately to only leave the sections I wanted.. A bit of cut-and-paste did the job and I learned to plan my pages better in future ;-) Tony > In real life, on a wiki you want to maintain properly, you would use a > different approach. Here are several: > > * Link from page Y to page X > * Pull the information from page X into page Y automatically, using > transclusion * Make a template and transclude into both pages X and Y > > Copying should be your last resort. It is the death of good information > resources. > > DanB > > _______________________________________________ > 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
