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 have to remember to update the other or else it goes out of date.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
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