You might look into http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages subpages would enable you to do what you need, and group stuff together. You then could use {{SUBPAGENAME}} in a template
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Yan Seiner <[email protected]> wrote: > No. They're all in the main namespace. > > I'm working on user manuals, and thinking about maintainability as we move > forward and certain articles change as equipment gets updated. Most of the > manual will remain the same, but some pieces will change if, for example, > we change manufacturers on a part. > > So if we have an electric heater subassembly, it might make sense to have > something like: > > Electric_Heater;ManufA > Electric_Heater;ManufB > > and then have a main index page for each particular assembly with the > appropriate links to the correct manufacturer for the subassemblies. > > Does that make sense? > > I'm open to suggestions on how to structure this better. Basically I need > to be able to tag each page with some sort of tag to allow collation of the > main document with similar titles. My customers don't care who makes the > heater, they just want to know how to use it. > > John wrote: > >> Are these pages in their own namespace? >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Yan Seiner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> John wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> {{DISPLAYTITLE:NEWNAME}} >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Is there any way to automate this in a template? >>> >>> My titles are in the form >>> >>> DisplayTitle;HiddenSuffix >>> >>> so I could manually edit each and every page to add >>> >>> {{DisplayTitle;HiddenSuffix:****DisplayTitle}} >>> >>> >>> but I'd really like to find a way to drop the part after the semicolon in >>> a template; in regex: >>> >>> s/;.*$// >>> >>> or in php (pseudocode, not mediawiki code) >>> >>> preg_replace(';.*$', '', $DISPLAYTITLE); >>> >>> Can this be done? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Project Management Consulting and Training >>> http://www.**ridgelineconsulti**ngllc.com<http://ridgelineconsultingllc.com> >>> <http://www.**ridgelineconsultingllc.com<http://www.ridgelineconsultingllc.com> >>> > >>> >>> >>> ______________________________****_________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> [email protected].****org >>> <[email protected].**org<[email protected]> >>> > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/****mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> >>> <h**ttps://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> >>> > >>> >>> >>> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected].**org <[email protected]> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> >> >> !DSPAM:5239c80246501804284693! >> >> >> > > > -- > Project Management Consulting and Training > http://www.**ridgelineconsultingllc.com<http://www.ridgelineconsultingllc.com> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l> > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
