>>As far as I have correctly understood, you'll have to create some templates.
That being the case, a number of questions arise:
1. How do I create a template? Does the MediaWiki website include a tutorial of
some sort? I assume to create one involves some PHP and XHTML programming
which whilst I am capable of this, I don't want to have to do unless
unavoidable.
2. Can I assign specific templates for each of my category pages? For example,
I want to create in my wiki a category called "biographies" so this would
inevitably result in artcile pages such as: "Biography:Joe_Bloggs" and
"Biography:Josephine_Bloggs".
I'd want both artciles pages to have the same format - that is for them to
be laid out exactly the same way and for them to include a floating box with a
portrait photography and some basic biographical data such as DoB, name, place
opf birth, gender - that sort
of thing.
My question then is how could i creat just such a template so that all
biography pages appeared the same?
3. The use of templates implies the need to create corresponding forms that
editors (wiki users creating content) then use to input data and which then
ensure that the right data appears in the right place on the resultant created
artcile page. If this is so, has is it achieved? Having just installed version
1.15.1 of the wiki software running under a XAMPP architecture on a Windows
sandbox, I've found that by default the same basic form appears when one trys
to creat *any* page for any category or any namespace. Cleraly there needs to
be different forms for different templates and each template (and associated
form) need to correspond with the desired look for the category of page.
4. How, in practice does wikipedia do this? In order to acheive a consistent
look, presumably different templates are used for each class of article. Are
extensions used to create these template and (presumably their corresponding
forms).
I'm really worried that what I'm trying to do will involve a lot of work on my
part - particularly in terms of programming - and I really don't want to have
to engage in this unless absolutely necessary.
I really like the look at feel of the monobook skin and it's various page
elements. If possible, I'd like to use these in my own wiki. Does anyone know
if they're publicly available - i,.e., are the templates available to download
and can i use them myself or or they copyrighted.
I apologise for baraging you with question but I really want to know how this
all works ...
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