As far as I have correctly understood, you'll have to create some templates. Att
2009/12/3 William van Zwanenberg <[email protected]> > As most of the regular contributors to the list will know by now, I am > total newbie to Mediawiki and having only just managed to successfully > install it, I am still finding my feet. > > > > My question to all in this instance concerns that adding of page > elements such as formatted tables, page dividers, and boxes containing > specific links to given articles across one's entire wiki so that each > article page conforms to a consistent look and feel. > > > > Looking around the Wikipedia website, I notice that there is > considerable consistency in terms of how content is displayed. Within a > given category page, there always seems to be a banner divider at the > bottom of the page and key facts are often contained in a separate > floating box. Within a biography page about a given person and persons, > key biographical data is contained again in a separate floating box. > It's these sorts of elements leading to a consistent look that I want to > include in my own wiki. > > > > Now of course I could do all this by simply including raw XHTML code in > every new article. However, for reasons I'm sure you will not need > explaining to you, this is a far from ideal solution. What I wondered > therefore is are there specific extensions available that provide the > necessary functionality to include these elements? I realise that > wikicode will provide some basic functionality but if I was say a > floating box included in an article, I don't want to have to repeatedly > include XHTML code. > > > > Equally, I don't want to have to create specific templates for specific > categories unless there is no other options available. Rather, I'd > prefer to let editors choose what elements to include in a given article > page and how they appear (that is to say how they're formatted) but > restrict the choice to a number of pre-set elements so that one does end > up with a consistent look and feel. > > > > I apologise again if this discussion includes some very elementary > questions but as I say, I'm just starting out. What I really want to > know is how it is that the actual format as well as look of all pages > within Wikipedia is maintained. There must surely be extensions in > place that enable content to be displayed in a particular way. > > > > From a reading of the extensions section of the MediaWiki site, I don't > seem to be able to discern this for myself. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- {+}Nevinho Venha para o Movimento Colaborativo http://sextapoetica.com.br !! _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
