Thanks
The header-footer would work perfectly, but the namespace thing makes linking a
pain for users. It's not enough that they need to know the proper name but the
namespace as well.
-Adam
On Oct 18, 2010, at 4:13 AM, Clayton wrote:
> On 10/15/10 16:21, Adam Meyer wrote:
>> Basically I want to have different page types that look a little different
>> (mainly a header and footer) in my wiki.
>>
>> I know I can do this by using different name spaces, or full page templates,
>> but I would rather not have to do that.
>>
>> Is there any way to do this?
>>
>> As of now, I am designating the 3 different types of pages using simple
>> templates - {{Article}}, {{Component}}, {{Module}} - These just place a
>> footer on the page, but I would like a footer and a header if possible.
>
> One way is to use a combination of the InputBox and Preloader extensions.
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Preloader
>
> We use this on the OOo Wiki for entering FAQs. See here:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General (bottom of
> the page) for an example of the form. It generates a new custom page with
> various elements required for the FAQ. You could do something similar... Add
> new Article, Add new Component, and Add new Module, and tie each "Add" to the
> custom layout you need for each article type. Of course then your users
> would
> have to create new pages from this specific entry point... so this method has
> its drawbacks.
>
> Alternatively, extensions such as
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HeaderFooter provide what you want,
> but
> on a per-namespace basis... so you would need a namespace for each document
> type
> (eg Article, Component, Module).
>
> There's probably other ways, but these are two possibilities I know of.
>
> C.
>
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